Stay-at-Home Day Twelve, Monday 6 April 2020: Stone Twelve

Stone Eleven.

Stone Ten.

Stone Nine.

Stone Eight.

Stone Seven.

A small brown stone found on the beach at Birdlings Flat a couple of years ago, polished last week:

Stone Twelve from Birdlings Flat.

Stone Twelve.

Stone Twelve.

I don’t know what kind of stone Stone Twelve is. It is probably metamorphic, made up of tiny brown and white grains compressed together by heat and pressure, but what kind of metamorphic rock it comes from is hard to say:

Stone Twelve.

Other side of Stone Twelve.

Stone Twelve.

Stone Twelve up close.

Stone Twelve up close.

Stone Twelve.

Stone Twelve alongside a $2 coin.

Stone Twelve looks the same on both sides, which is not common. It is slightly concave on one side. It has polished well.

The next Post in this Series is Stay-at-Home Day Thirteen, Tuesday 7 April 2020: Stone Thirteen.

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