Fossil found on Eastbourne beach
A CYCLE ride along Eastbourne seafront to the cliffs at Holywell took local man Steve Atkinson millions of years back in time.
For as Steve, 45, an unemployed jack-of-all-trades and part-time Salvation Army volunteer, stopped for a cigarette he couldn't believe his eyes.
He said, "I looked down at my feet and there was this large stone with an odd looking pattern on it.
"When I picked it up for a closer look, I realised it was a fossil, resembling something like a giant snail.
"I put it in my haversack and took it back to my home in Shackleton Close, where a friend said he thought it was an ammonite."
Ammonites come from an extinct group of marine animals that lived anything up to 200 million years ago. Steve now hopes to discover more about his chance find from a museum or other expert authority.
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