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Fossilised coprolite??

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  • 21-01-2014 1:48am
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    Wren A. Magreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭


    Not the most spectacular find ever I know,but I found what I think could be a fossilised coprolite in the glacial debris of a midlands esker last year.It looks like a micaceous grey sandstone,and measures 80mm. long and 40mm. wide.
    I'm just wondering what you guys think?Thanks.

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    #2
    Wren A. Magreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Wren A. Magreet


    Posted in wrong forum perhaps??:confused:


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    Kess73
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    Visually it looks like a coprolite, but without it being properly tested nobody here is going to be able to offer you anything more than a best guess based on your pics.

    My best guess is that it could be.


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    #4
    Wren A. Magreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Wren A. Magreet


    I was reacquainting myself with M.J. O'Kelly's 'Newgrange:Archaeology,Art and Legend' last night and found the following illustration:


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    This unusual shaped stone(encircled in red) is a sandstone concretion and was found in a shallow basin-like depression on the upper surface of the back corbel of the roof-box at Newgrange,and was believed to have been deliberately placed there.I think it looks strikingly similar to the image of the stone I originally posted above,so it's probably safe to say that it's not a coprolite,but a sandstone concretion of natural formation.


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