Submitted by daniel on Mon, 06/04/2026 - 10:37 Picture Image Body sixthland posted a photo: The stump of a fossilised conifer on Tooting Common. 145 million years old, originally part of the Purbeck Fossil Forest near Lulworth Cove, Dorset. Quarried out and presented to the Balham & District Antiquarian and Natural History Society by local developer Alfred Heaver, it has stood beside the lake on Tooting Bec Common since 1898. Web Link The Tooting Common Fossil Tree Flickr