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Found at Kettleness UK


Shannon_marie

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Good morning,

I was searching the beach and found these! Please could you help me identify whether these are fossils or not? I'm an amateur so I don't have any tools. 

I've also added at the bottom some pics of ammonites and a belemnite I found :)

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Welcome to the forum! Kettleness is one of my favourite collecting localities. :) 

I think the first one is just a piece of a concretion with calcite inside.

The second is fossil wood - common around there, but attractive with the shrinkage cracks filled with calcite.

 

Nice belemnite (my speciality!) - I'm not sure which one it is, a few more photos from different angles might help if you're interested, although you often also need to know which bed it's from which is difficult for a beach find.

The ammonites are all Dactylioceras of course.

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Thank you :) I'll get some pics from different angles of the belemnite for you. I cant tell you which layer it came from as I found it on the shore not the cliff face im afraid 

 

Any idea about the 3/4th picture? 

 

 

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15 minutes ago, Shannon_marie said:

Thank you :) I'll get some pics from different angles of the belemnite for you. I cant tell you which layer it came from as I found it on the shore not the cliff face im afraid 

 

Any idea about the 3/4th picture? 

 

 

That's fine, it's not wise to collect from the cliff!

 

The 3rd/4th is harder pieces of (probably) iron rich rock weathering out I think - there's a lot like that around there, from the iron-bearing Middle Lias sandstones.

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