Shards, fragments, meteorites and minerals

What's the best thing you've found buried in the earth?
I have a dazzling collection of iron meteorites found on the South Downs and a magnificent spindle whorl I discovered on Tinker's Lane near Alton.

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Once I picked a Fabergé egg from my nose, but that's not really what you're driving at.

What's the best thing you've found buried in the earth?
I have a dazzling collection of iron meteorites found on the South Downs and a magnificent spindle whorl I discovered on Tinker's Lane near Alton.

pics or ... etc.

Spindle whorl

Meteorite nose cone

nyom nyom
looks like a yorkshire pudding

time for breakfast

I've found many great fossils over the years, mainly shellfish such as trilobites and clams, but I once found a perfectly preserved sea urchin that was beautiful.
I've also found a few stone age flint scrapers.
I have a very large prehistoric bone fragment in the garage, part of a mammalian spine, which is possibly whale or a large land mammal such as hippo, mammoth or rhino, which I found on the East Coast. All the sea out there was once land, Doggerland, as it is ow known (as in Dogger Bank) so bones of megafauna are often washed ashore or dredged up by trawlers.
One of my favourite meteorite fragments I've seen was here:

Wold Cottage, East Yorkshire.

Here's the meteorite:

But I only saw a fragment. The site is marked by an lovely obelisk, as seen in the plate above, but here it is today:

We stayed at the cottage (a very beautiful B & B now) and the countryside is amazing for cycling.

Good haul GH, any photos?
How large is that meteorite fragment? I was in Utrecht last month and saw a massive one in their planetarium. About 5 times the size of a normal human head.
My granddad had a huuuuge collection of fossils that he 'found' in dorset. I think he must've taken a van down there a few times because he had at least a skip load.

No pics, I'm afraid. I'll dig out that bone tonight though and post some pics.

The piece I saw of the meteorite was only small, size of pea really, but the large piece is the size of a breeze block.

There's a huge meteorite in the Natural History Museum. That's as big as beer fridge.

If you're in the North at all, Whitby Museum is brilliant for such artifacts. It's my favourite museum in the world.

Sounds ace, I'll try and remember it if I'm ever in those parts.
Here are the other two meteorites I've found, both are pretty large and very heavy.
I found one about twice the size of a cricket ball when I was a child, it was incredible. My dad lost it in a move, still devastated.

Meteorites or iron pyrites? Get them a lot in the chalk of the North Downs.

Yeah the second two I've never been sure about.

Could be a particularly tough dog poo? There's a lot of that up there too.