ID Help Needed Please, Possible Fossilized Egg? UK Find

[UKAlex]

Hello,

I was out walking for exercise during lockdown in the fields and found this egg like fossil on the surface. The farmer had been excavating topsoil from a ploughed field and using it to resurface a farm track.

I have no idea what it is, could it possibly be a fossilized egg? I didn't realise finding stuff in fields was this exciting! Apoligies if the images are not up to standard.

The outer material is red/orange, the inner material is dark grey

Approx 2.8 CM Length, 2.1 CM Width, 1.3 CM Depth

Thank You

[Pterygotus]

Pretty sure it’s not an egg. Concretion ? Also, do you have better photos?

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello, Alex, and welcome.

This is not an egg; there is no eggshell texture and the shell would have been too thick for the creature inside to break out of this.

Possibly an agate nodule or a concretion.

 

[UKAlex]

Thank You for your replies, I will keep looking :-) still a cool find for me though, i learn something new everyday. Amazing forum! My mum found a raptor egg while looking in footings piles back in the 70's!!!