Stay-at-Home Day Nineteen, Monday 13 April 2020: Stone Nineteen

Stone Eighteen.

Stone Seventeen.

Stone Sixteen.

Stone Fifteen.

Stone Fourteen.

Stone Nineteen is the third fossilised worm cast stone this week. But it is a very rare black one. I found it on Gemstone Beach. 

Stone Nineteen.

Stone Nineteen.

Stone Nineteen.

Other side of Stone Nineteen.

The fossil traces on Stone Nineteen are different from those on Stones Fifteen and Seventeen, being less linear. In at least three instances, we are viewing the worm cast or trail from above, as it were, as it emerges from the depths of the stone.

Stone Nineteen.

Stone Nineteen detail.

Stone Nineteen detail.

Stone Nineteen detail.

Stone Nineteen.

Stones Nineteen, Seventeen and Fifteen, three different fossil worm cast stones:

Stone Nineteen.

Stone Seventeen.

Stone Fifteen.

The next Post in this Series is Stay-at-Home Day Twenty, Tuesday 14 April 2020: Stone Twenty.

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