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MR. HARRY E. BURNS, of Crowborough, this spring informed me of some remarkable spherical masses of sandstone in the Ashdown Sands at High Hurst Wood Quarry, and was good enough later to supply one about 10 inches in diameter to our Museum. He suggested that they might be sand casts of reptilian eggs like that of the Iguanodon. They consist of fine-grained nearly white stone—much of the iron having been leached out. I expected but failed entirely to find on section any pan or stains of limonite such as in the well-known balls of Folkestone Sands.
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ABBOTT, G. Curious Spherical Masses in Ashdown Sands. Nature 112, 539 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112539a0
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