OneGuyFromBarlick

That too.....!

Not TVP but Weetabix is getting closer. Clue: what do you eat in Italy?

Pasta, is it the structure of various Wheat strains?

Cheeses? Parmesan, motzarella?

Different shapes/types of pasta is all I can think of.

Pasta is the word I wanted you to get. There's more to it than that, because it's a representation of something else but is being described as `pasta' from its appearance. I'll tell you what it is because you wouldn't get the extra bit unless you were a follower of obscure astronomy news and I only found it by chance. It's a graphic representation of `nuclear pasta' which is what the astrophysicists are calling the stuff deep inside neutron stars and which is the hardest known material in the universe. They say a teaspoonful of it would weigh around 90 million tons! The scientists have used simulations to stretch and deform the nuclear pasta to test its strength, and this required about 2 million hours of computer processor time. You can read more about it here (and there's even anti-spaghetti!).... LINK

Any thoughts on this one? Bottle top there for size comparison.

A rotten tooth from a horse?

Ha Gloria, I knew you would get it straight away! I dug it up in the muck heap this morning. Sparky lost it last winter. It's hard, smooth and shiny...

Gloria wrote: ↑25 Sep 2018, 19:17 A rotten tooth from a horse?

Wow, I'm impressed. I was going to say a piece of agate.

I was on the same line as China but was going to say Amber!



Can you tell me what this is?

Wild boar tusk. Ex East Street Barlick.

Sheep's horn ?

scratch that - maybe Walrus.

Has it been polished ? the surface looks very smooth

Sorry Kids, all wrong. At least according to the opinion I was given by someone who said they were sure.

Looks like a toe nail from a huge bird so I'll guess Ostrich claw.

The end of a rhino, elephant or mammoth tusk.

A walrus tooth?

No, sorry. Not the end of something larger. If you look it has a recess in the end where it was in the gum, it's a complete tooth. I'll give it one more day.

Musk deer?

Sorry Gloria no. I think I have put you all through enough misery! I got this tooth in a box of ivory fragments that came out of an old workshop and before anyone asks I am perfectly satisfied that it's at least 100 years old. I sent a pic of it to the Natural History Museum in London and they replied that it was either a lion's or a tiger's canine tooth, they would have to have it in their hands to do tests to decide which. So that's the answer to the best of my knowledge.

What do you think this is?

I think I know Gloria and it's such a good one that I'll hang back and let someone else crack it. Very unusual and a goodie.

Is it a gate closing mechanism?

I don't think I have ever seen five members on a topic at one time! before. Lovely.
Don't let them off too easily Gloria. Be totally without ruth!!