Trace fossils in sandstone from Barns Ness

Check out this sandstone cobble I saw at Barns Ness – it comes bearing gorgeous trace fossils. Can you spot them?

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Lens cap for scale in all these photos. The next three are close ups of the burrows from the previous image:

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Plus two more, from other cobbles I encountered::

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