Looks like Quatermass and the Pit in miniature!
Paul Pearse
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Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 3:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Discovery at open cast site on former railway land
I assume that the primary geological test has been done ('it it wi' 'ammer)?
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From: Contaminated Land Management Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fairwood, Duncan (UK)
Sent: 25 June 2010 14:41
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Subject: Re: Discovery at open cast site on former railway land
Why not try the old acid test on it to see if it is indeed a calcareous matrix (not that law abiding geologists would ever dream of doing such things anymore...!)
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Sent: 25 June 2010 14:36
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From asking around .....
"I can't really do better than 'calcareous concretion' - possibly from the Late Jurassic? There is an outside chance that the concretion was nucleated on an ammonite, but I can't really see any biological structure."
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>>> Gareth Rees <[log in to unmask]> 24/06/2010 15:29 >>>
I don't think its an ammonite as whorls spiral from the centre, that appears to be a central circular formation surrounded by a larger ring
I was also thinking grind stone
Are there any mills in the area, what kind of open cast site is it,
Thanks
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From: Contaminated Land Management Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Smith
Sent: 24 June 2010 15:22
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Subject: Re: Discovery at open cast site on former railway land
To me it looks like a slab of slag.,
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Mike Smith
From: Contaminated Land Management Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Petitt,Matthew (Environmental Services)
Sent: 24 June 2010 15:14
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Subject: Discovery at open cast site on former railway land
Afternoon everyone
One perhaps for all the historians, geologists or archaeologists out there I think. The artefact/relic in the attached photo was uncovered at a Brownfield site near Tibshelf in east Derbyshire recently, and the jury is out on identifying what it actually is.
<<IMG_1831.jpg>>
All sensible suggestions gratefully requested (we've already had the fossilised flying saucer, roman spinning top, chariot wheel suggestions!). The best idea we have so far is that it is an ammonite. I've got sketchy and basic geological knowledge, but I thought ammonites were more rough/ridged on their surface - unless this has been smoothed by physical processes.
The site is a former railway siding/engine shed, which is now undergoing open casting.
Kind regards
Matt Petitt
Land Reclamation & Regeneration
Derbyshire County Council
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