Amazing irregular echinoid find!!

Irregular echinoid - real (from Greece) and fossil (from Hampshire

Alternative rear view of irregular echinoid showing hole

On our honeymoon in 2005 Andrew and I went to Stoupa in the Pelleponese (spelt wrong) in Greece. We went scube diving. Andrew could go deeper than me and found the shell of an irregular echinoid (larger photo), very similar to a Sea Potato but not quite the same!The latin should perhaps be pseudoechinoidius stormtrooperius!!

In December 2011, during the Christmas holidays, we went walking from Ashley Park in the New Forest and headed towards Hampton Ridge - one of our usual routes. I saw an orangey-round stone and when I picked it up I was AMAZED to see that I had found a perfectly formed fossil of exactly the same irregular echinoid. It was lovely and, I have to say, slightly spooky. It felt a bit too unlikely to be a co-incidence. Anyway who knows what, if anything, the find means. I would just like to think that it means something....

The photos of both are attached for anyone's interest. The geology/archaology/biology of it all is something I will look into in another life...