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No idea

by Lisa
(Greater london )

My children found this while we were visiting hopton on sea a few years back and my son brought it down from his toy box as we had forgotten about it .. and he would like to know if it is indeed a fossil

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Sponge in Flint
by: Michael

Almost certainly a Cretaceous sponge, preserved within a flint nodule (which formed in the Chalk around 80 million years ago)

"I have no idea"
by: Anonymous



Probably a mammal vertebrae

Gone joint
by: Anonymous

Looks like it could've been a home joint my guess is around the late Jurassic period of cretaceous period, probably to a later animal maybe part of a spine not sure.

Bone Fragment
by: Douglas

This looks like a piece of bone joint. I don't know what it is. I do think it is a fossil.

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