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Help identifying possible fossil


Psmk2

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I found this oddity a while ago on a rocky beach. Im not sure what it is.  It could be a fossil but I'm more thinking it's some kind of ancient pottery or stoneware due to the pattern. It looks like the same pattern continues round what might have been a plate. There was know roman habitation in the area where it was found...any ideas?

 

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Looks like sandstone with a leftover impression from a pebble or concretion to me. I don't think that this is an artifact, and it certainly isn't a fossil in my opinion.

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Thanks for the reply...but if you look carefully at the edge you can see there was an identical shape where it was broken off.... also the edge is pitted in a kind of pattern...I thought it might be an impression but there are 2 almost identical shapes ..... surely too much of a coincidence.....or maybe your right

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These shapes are seen where carbonate concretion has weathered out. I was once shown a "track way" that I was quite confident was actually a concentration of them.

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These look like gastrochaenid burrows to me. The view is of half sections of the burrow. They can be fossil or modern.

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