Any ?piston heads geologists?

[Benengo]

Cool story I know... but I was walking the dog and found this rock:



Any idea what type it is? Looks like sandstone on the outside and flint on the inside.

[YankeePorker]

Flint nodule, but cool shape.

[TTwiggy]

I think it's one of those 'part-baked' baguettes. The other thing is a can of coke. HTH.

[allegro]

You know how they used to bulk out dog food with bone dust.....well.....

[KP328]

Worst 'i wear a Rolex' post ever

[eldar]

YankeePorker said:

Flint nodule, but cool shape.

Looks exactly like it. Cretaceous dildo, perhaps?

[Jimmy Recard]

KP328 said:

Worst 'i wear a Rolex' post ever

Damn, I wanted to do that one

[Lynchie999]

YankeePorker said:

Flint nodule, but cool shape.

what he said... flint / chert nodule... forms in limestone / chalk ... etc..

[Roofless Toothless]

I studied geology and oceanography in a previous incarnation (well, feels like it anyway) and it certainly looks like a flint nodule from the chalk, but the second picture seems to show a kind of central core to it. This me wonder if it could possibly have formed around a belemnite fossil.

Your profile puts you in Bristol, which is a bit far from the chalk outcrops in the south, but flints do get everywhere. Having said this, it is a very unlikely shape to have travelled any great distance.

[normalbloke]

Is it a fossilised sausage from many years ago? Are there any hammer marks on the end?

[Dogwatch]

It was a trial run for a high-street peddler of sausage rolls which went wrong, was thrown away and fossilised due to being inedible.

HTH

[Benengo]

Roofless Toothless said:

I studied geology and oceanography in a previous incarnation (well, feels like it anyway) and it certainly looks like a flint nodule from the chalk, but the second picture seems to show a kind of central core to it. This me wonder if it could possibly have formed around a belemnite fossil.

Your profile puts you in Bristol, which is a bit far from the chalk outcrops in the south, but flints do get everywhere. Having said this, it is a very unlikely shape to have travelled any great distance.

I'm currently living in the south of the netherlands near the border between germany and belgium so that might fit the bill...Off to google 'flint nodules' and 'cretaceous dildos' now.

[eharding]

Dogwatch said:

It was a trial run for a high-street peddler of sausage rolls which went wrong, was thrown away and fossilised due to being inedible.

HTH

Could it...actually...be the original sausage-roll that was brought to the infant Jesus in a Bethlehem stable?

Somebody phone Robert Langdon.....and somebody owes Greggs a *huge* apology.

[Simpo Two]

Maybe send the photos to http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/

[The Dangerous Elk]

LOL, miss read the thread title as Gynaecologist

[Beati Dogu]

Topical $450m sausage roll.