PART OF A FOSSIL CORAL REEF (LARGE SPECIMEN CUT AND POLISHED) - 325 million years old - Yorkshire
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Cut and polished
325 million years old
Holderness coast, Yorkshire
A large cut and polished piece of limestone packed with fossil corals. It is polished on one side. The base has been cut flat so that it displays well.
This fossil is part of a coral reef that existed in a tropical sea that covered England during the Carboniferous period when Britain was situated on the equator.
From the Carboniferous Limestone of Northumberland. It is derived from the boulder clay and was brought south to Yorkshire by an ice sheet during the Ice Age.
Note: This item weighs over 2 kilograms.
Size: approx. 17.5 x 14 x 7 centimetres
Weight: 2.39 kilograms
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