Has anyone found any fossils???

solehunter · #1 11-09-2006, 01:45 PM

Here are a few fossils i have picked up over the years while messing about on the beach! Most are sea urchins but i have no idea as to what the others are!
Has anyone else got any good uns?
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steve devon · #2 11-09-2006, 02:23 PM

When i was little i used to love em

Only ever found one though aint gotta clue what that was either

biggun · #3 11-09-2006, 02:24 PM

I married the last fossil I picked up!

You can just tell the wife does not visit this forum can't you?

All joking aside I used to find loads of Ammonites (I think that's how you spell it) at the bottom of the clay cliffs at Reighton Gap near Filey when I was a lot younger!

solehunter · #4 11-09-2006, 03:49 PM

Nice one!!! I would love some of those!!
I have a piece of a small one in some chalk but have mislaid it somewhere!!!

Fisherdan · #5 11-09-2006, 03:51 PM

i found alot of fools gold ammonites. there is also thosands of belamites ( if spelt correct ) that look like teeth. some of those fosils are imprints of ammonites, some mite have a imprint of a belamite. never found a sea urchin keep that in a safe place in my words!

fishypaul · #6 11-09-2006, 04:42 PM

i remember going on a trip with my school a long time ago, (no ! ,not pre war ) we walked all the way round the bottom of beachy head and found loads of those ammonites,they were everywhere

biggun · #7 11-09-2006, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by fishypaul

i remember going on a trip with my school a long time ago, (no ! ,not pre war ) we walked all the way round the bottom of beachy head and found loads of those ammonites,they were everywhere

C'mon Paul, I bet you remember catching live Ammonites off Beachy Head!

solehunter · #8 11-09-2006, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Fisherdan

i found alot of fools gold ammonites. there is also thosands of belamites ( if spelt correct ) that look like teeth. some of those fosils are imprints of ammonites, some mite have a imprint of a belamite. never found a sea urchin keep that in a safe place in my words!

Well the urchins are reasonably common here.....There is alot in the chalk of tennyson and afton downs!

geejayy · #9 11-09-2006, 05:15 PM

those urchins are known as sheperds crowns back in hampshire,
fairly common in amongst the chalk, & often found in feilds.

fishypaul · #10 11-09-2006, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by biggun

C'mon Paul, I bet you remember catching live Ammonites off Beachy Head!

thanks rich,are we allowed them in the species hunt ?

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