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Cambrian Rockhound 200 posts Bobo the bear Cambrian Rockhound 200 posts
Bobo the bear
Found this just off the Brig at Filey. The Brig is Jurassic but this could be an erratic from the eroding glacial cliff deposits.
I always find something weird when I visit Filey and this is no exception. 
The small balls are each 2.5 cm in diameter and a slight ridge is suggested halfway across one of them but just may be how it's weathered. It is so uniform I thought it could be man-made.
Any Ideas would be welcome.
Bobothebear
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prep01 Cambrian Rockhound 3,486 posts
prep01
I would look at it but there are no photos! (Don't forget scale and all aspects)
Colin Huller
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Bobo the bear Cambrian Rockhound 200 posts
Bobo the bear
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Sorry...I had them attached when I did the preview.
Bobothebear
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Dirty Pete Cambrian Rockhound 1,114 posts
Dirty Pete
Hi Bobo,
Assume these are three spherical concretions that have grown and merged/coalesced to form a model of a tritium nucleus.

Pete
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TqB Cambrian Rockhound 2,586 posts
TqB
Looks like a piece from the Permian Concretionary Limestone which is full of them, of many sizes. This outcrops on the Durham coast and inland - it often turns up as erratics.
Tarquin
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Bobo the bear Cambrian Rockhound 200 posts
Bobo the bear
Well thanks Guys...really helpful. It just looked so regularly shaped it could have been man-made. Done a bit of looking on the web and seen the concretions in Oregon containing crabs....wow. I won't try opening these up though. Probably started off as a grain of sand.
Bobothebear
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