What is this?

[TwinkleWings]

It's next to some paving slabs. Can't work out if it's another bit of paving slab but wondering if it could be asbestos cement? It's about an inch in thickness from what I can tell.

It's got kind of dimples in it which is what is worrying me. But so have the definite paving slabs but the dimples on them are smaller.

It looks exactly like a paving slab to me...

If it is asbestos it will weigh very little for its size. Get some gloves on and move it a bit.

Not able to do that at the moment - does it look like asbestos?

Looks like a cheap concrete paving slab to me that's been broken up and left there.

It is an upside-down chunk of ordinary paving slab and is showing the underside.

Even if it is asbestos you have nothing to worry about as it isn't broken. Asbestos is fine, it's the dust that causes problems in later life.

Even if it is asbestos ( and not very likely) Ad Hoc exposure is not much of a risk, it's prolonged exposure to fibres generated by cutting it or it flaking that is the problem.
Think of it in the same terms as putting yourself at risk of cancer by walking past someone in the street who was smoking.

@TopBitchoftheWitches it is broken - there's another part next to it. There's nothing that is asbestos cement nearby and it's right next to other paving slabs right on top of the soil so I'm guessing it is paving slab.

I had just read something recently about asbestos cement having a dimple pattern on one side so slightly panicked about that. The other paving slabs seem to have sticky outy bits on them (pimples?!) rather than the inward dimples that this has...

I have an asbestos roof on my outhouse which contains my washing machine and tumble dryer.
It is perfectly safe.

When I say broken, I mean you would have had to inhale the dust at the time it was broken.

If it is asbestos, you'll be fine.

Is that the corrugated sort?

Yes that's it.

Bump just seeing if anyone else recognises this

Do paving slabs have inverted dimple patterns on them?

What are your paving slabs laid on? If they were laid on some kind of concrete, and a bit of it broke off and came loose, then it would look exactly like that. The pimples on the paving slab would cause dimples in the concrete, and the slab would leave an impression of its edge in the concrete, with rough, unshaped concrete around it.

Yep that's just the underside of a concrete paving slab

Ah I didn't think of that @LifeIsGoodish - the only thing I would say is the rough but around the edge looks separate to the "slab" part. Although I'm only going on photos now as no longer where this is.

It is at a holiday home that we were staying at and the children were playing near it and we were walking past it for several days - I only noticed it on the last day and thought about the possibility that it could be asbestos due to the dimples. DH said it was just paving slab (he glanced at it for a second). But obviously I've panicked about the fact that if it is and my children have been walking past it/playing near it for several days then they would have been exposed to some dust...

Seriously, if I saw that I'd think 'broken paving slab'. Asbestos wouldn't even enter my mind.

Besides, as others have said, asbestos is only dangerous if you inhale the dust. There's no dust, of any description, coming up from that.

Yes paving slabs have dimples on them, especially the big old 3x2's

You wouldn't be at risk just walking past it

To be honest it didn't enter my mind - and then it did and then the thought got bigger and I thought about if small fragments had broken off and we'd walked through it in our shoes or we'd transferred it into the car or house etc etc Clearly the sun has gone to my head this weekend

Check the weight

@BillywilliamV I'm no longer there so I can't do that

OP have you posted before about your concerns over asbestos?

No? I just spotted this yesterday so first time I posted about it.

Ah no worries, there was someone who has posted quite a few threads re asbestos, they were really worried but it seemed to be anxiety displaced from somewhere else.

PS I think it's just a normal slab

Council paving slabs are dimpled. There's millions of pic on google.

Asbestos is not dangerous unless you are exposed to dust off it by breaking or cutting it. Previously broken, non dusty stuff prevents very little danger. It's still on a hell of a lot of people's old outbuildings, workshops, sheds or stables and is causing no harm.

I agree - it looks like a broken piece of concrete onto which paving slabs have been set. You are therefore seeing an imprint of the underside of a paving slab.