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Clearer pictures, something to give the scale and a more exact location might help. At the moment I can't see what this might be.

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They do not look like vertebrae, to me, if that was what you were thinking.  :unsure: 

They don't appear to have any bone texture or morphology. 

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I suppose, the original poster is referring to belemnite "spine" (belemnite rostrum) fragments.

 

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I can't see any sign of the typical calcite banding of a belemnite guard. 

Close up pictures of the specimens and their ends would be useful. 

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hi all, ah ok sorry... getting carried away! bare with me i'm a complete novice....how to explain this without sounding reallllllly stupid! Found in a huge chunk of the harder, dryer, clay on Seatown beach, Dorset UK. Also found in the same block were ammonites and belamites. I'll sort some better photos! standby.....

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They were each placed in the clay separate from each other and didn't look like any broken belamite i've come across previously. My initial impression (and wish!!) was a spinal column of some creature. 

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10 minutes ago, angiexlester said:

I keep getting “there’s a problem downloading your file” :(

There have been some issues with image loading which are being attended to. 

If you reduce the picture size to less than 1 MB it should work. :)

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