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alloverover
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Not a fossil l dont think but what on earth is it ?

It is all stone, dosent look like a layer has come away, very strange.

Found Essex/Suffolk boarder, any ideas gratefully received :thumbsup:
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Could it be coprolite?
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Funnily enough I find similar looking stones on the Essex/Suffolk border! I wonder if we're detecting in the same areas ha ha
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Iron slag from old bloom iron working. You are in exactly the right area for it. . :thumbsup:
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Maybe banded flint
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DaveP wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 8:34 pmMaybe banded flint
You can see the rust! :D
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Oddly i find smaller items similar to this and i put it down to a bronze outer that has had something iron inside it ?
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fred wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 8:30 pm Iron slag from old bloom iron working. You are in exactly the right area for it. . :thumbsup:
Cheers for that Fred, very interesting I will have to do a bit of research there. Strangely its not something ive come accross before, every days a school day as they say :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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First pic looks like a klingons forehead mate :D
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coal digger wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:53 pm First pic looks like a klingons forehead mate :D
Wouldnt know mate, never seen a Klingon let alone his foreskin :Thinking: :o :shock:
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alloverover wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:46 pm Cheers for that Fred, very interesting I will have to do a bit of research there. Strangely its not something ive come accross before, every days a school day as they say :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I was on a Medway History Finders dig a month ago or so ago on a site that was covered in the damn stuff. :thumbsup:
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fred wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 5:14 pm I was on a Medway History Finders dig a month ago or so ago on a site that was covered in the damn stuff. :thumbsup:
Any idea when they stopped using that method of smelting ( am being lazy I know) :thumbsup:
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