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wotta load of pooh - Troll - 5th July 2005
Has anyone ever come across a coprolite? What contexts? Tapered ends? How would one recognise such a beasty????
wotta load of pooh - deepdigger - 6th July 2005
You really need to do a search for "the lloyds bank turd" its a very famous coprolite and does show tapering ends. Stunning!!
"The world's most collectible piece of human ordure is a nine-inch stool known as the Lloyds Bank Turd. The unique Viking turd, so called because it was found in an archaeological dig under a Lloyds bank, is insured for ?20,000. It is highly valued because of its near perfect condition - a rarity amongst 1,000-year-old turds" taken from http://www.marauderproductions.com/empyre/hallow-facts.htm.
deep
wotta load of pooh - troll - 6th July 2005
My God...would need an epidural to get that out! Stirrups please.....
wotta load of pooh - deepdigger - 6th July 2005
See yer mam was right, eat your veg!!
deep
wotta load of pooh - troll - 6th July 2005
Went on that naff ride in the jorvic centre recently-theres a little old blokey desperately trying to give birth to one behind a picket fence. The sound affects are fabulous.Nearly wet myself.
wotta load of pooh - deepdigger - 6th July 2005
It would sound good if he's trying to shift a nine incher!!
deep
wotta load of pooh - sea-surgeon - 6th July 2005
The term coprolite originated in palaeontology and can really only be applied to mineralised or fossilized love chocolate, I mean faeces, as it comes from the Greek, dung (copro) stone (lithos). Have seen Viking choad in Orkneys in compressed deposits with plenty of organics. Have also found a true coprolite (fossil) while fieldwalking a Mesolithic find spot. The tapered ends are to stop the rectum from slamming closed at the end of the dump.
Also, on an industrial site that had an 18-19c coal mine found a truly horrific possible copro, it was coal black and mineralised like pencil lead, whoever laid it must have died 10 minutes later from industrial poisoning. The whole site had a thick black layer of industrial fallout. The find may just have been some kind of residue that had been extruded through a pipe, but it looked like a one-legged stool to me. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to my castle privy, I hope those peasants are sheltering at the bottom of my garderobe shaft again.
wotta load of pooh - Sith - 6th July 2005
I seem to remember that Dr Andrew Jones of York once apeared on the cover of New Scientist with the LBT, under the headline "What the Vikings left behind".
wotta load of pooh - medi-evil - 6th July 2005
i think troll wants to kno how to spot a coprolite. i think the shape is the main atribute it has that "untouoched by the hand of man" look and that piped, icing-sugar/mr whippy texture. but would he try the taste test?
wotta load of pooh - troll - 6th July 2005
medi-evil...stomach just turned over! Believe it or not, I`m after a guide to identifying the little monsters. Have dug through plenty of green cessy fills but would like to know what to look for-preferably in section. Colleague of mine asked t`other day and, although I have seen a few Richards in the past, I have no idea of how to identify them in section!