If you're thinking this looks like something that might have come out of the back end of a Tyrranosaurus....well your reasonably close...what you're looking at is the best example of a fossil forest on the Jurassic Coast. Its spectacular position is a short walk along the coast path on the east side of Lulworth Cove in the Purbecks. It is now a lot more accessible than in my young days when I gingerly edged along a precipitous ledge to find it.
The large stone rings still evident in the pictures were formed by algae that surrounded the trees, rather than the trees themselves.
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