One of my students brought this log to me, it was cut from the felled trunk of a dead tree in the garden of a cottage he'd just bought, so he had no idea what it is. It strikes me as possibly being a heavily pruned apple tree...time will tell. There's a s much as 3" (7cm) thickness in places, despite the heartwood having mostly rotted away, so I might well get a few shallow dishes, or perhaps I could get a single decent sized bowl by using this as the wall and gluing a piece on for the base of the bowl....time will tell!
