FARMER Colin Nutter believes he may be walking in the steps of dinosaurs as he tends his flock on Pendle Hill.
And he is hoping to find local expertise that will help to determine whether the giant incisor shaped rock he discovered lying in the mud is a fossilised relic from a bygone age, or just a freak of nature.
"I've never seen anything like it before," said Colin, 56, who lives in Fence and whose family keep sheep over a large area of Pendle Side.
"We've found fossilised bones and arrow heads and the like in the past but this is different. It looks like a giant fang, embedded in a jaw bone and the two look like different materials."
"I don't want people tramping round digging all over the place," said Colin.
"My wife thinks I should use it as a paper weight and that may be how it ends up but I would like the experts to have a look."
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