At the beginning of August, I finished tumble polishing 24 stones that Oliver Simpson had collected from Slope Point beaches (Southland). Part One looked at Stones #1 to #10. This Post presents images of the remaining 14 stones.
Stones #11 and #22 appear to be some kind of fossilised material, maybe fern. Such material has really interesting patterns:
Stone #15 is a small piece of petrified wood with maybe some chalcedony-agate material in it:
Another highly interesting stone is #19, with one dark side and one light side, and with other material within it:
There are five light-coloured petrified wood stones, with one of them, #21, containing some breccia as well:
The other four light-coloured pieces of petrified wood are Stones #14, #17, #23 and #24:
There are four dark-coloured petrified wood stones, #12, #13, #16 and #18. Stones #13 and #16 include some interesting white markings:
Stones #12 and #18:
The remaining stone is #20, a small caramel-coloured one:
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