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The Famous Red and White Cliffs of Hunstanton are visited by hundreds each year simply to see this spectacular natural geological feature. The Red Chalk and White Lower Chalk is rich in fossils including echinoids, fish, shark, bivalves and brachiopods, ammonites and more. |
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Overstrand is a foreshore collecting location. Chalk is exposed during low tide, this is usually during scouring conditions or winter/spring months. The chalk is highly fossiliferious, yielding many Echinoids, Sponges and Molluscs |
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The location of the famous 'West Runton Elephant'. From the West Runton fresh water bed, mammal and fish remains are common along with freshwater shells. On the foreshore during scouring tides, the chalk yields echinoids and sponges. |
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East Runton is the best location for mammal remains from the Pastonian age. It also is one of the only locations where you can see younger pleistocene beds below huge chalk cliffs. The chalk was transported during the ice age, and is spectacular to see. |
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The chalk at Weybourne yields echinoid's and brachiopods but resting upon this is the Wroxham Crag. This yields mammal and fish remains along with a wide variety of molluscs in the thick shell beds and crag sands. |
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The Caistor St Edmund quarry in Norfolk is particularly good for fish remains which can be found in the lower beds. Echinoids, brachiopods and bivalves are also common here along with Sponges from the flint spoil heaps. |
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At Crimplesham, Kimmeridge Clay and Oxford Clay is exposed. Within the Oxford Clay is large nodules which contain ammonites, brachiopods and bivalves. The quarry is slowly being backfilled, so collecting is become more limited. |
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Near the life boat station, the foreshore exposures chalk during scouring conditions. Corals and shark remains have been found at this location although scouring only happens a few times a year. If you do visit during favorable conditions, you should find some nice specimens. |
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This site has the youngest chalk in the UK. Unfortunately this is an erratic and it had to be protected by sea defence for future generations. The chalk has now turned orange as it no longer gets washed out. Oysters and Brachiopods still common. |
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The tall and long glacial cliffs, now protected by sea defence are still eroding away as rain water causes land slides. Derived fossils can be collected along the foreshore including echinoid's in flint, shells and occasional mammal bones. |
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Happisburgh, famous for its rapid rates of erosion and a graveyard of previous attempts to stop erosion with old broken sea walls, is not the most famous of places for fossils. It is actually the glacial beds that yield fossils, mostly mollusc's, but also other erratics. Happisburgh does have forest bed, but this is rarely exposed. |
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Norfolk

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Fossils are common |
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Fossils often found |
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Fossils are not common |
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Fossils rarely found |
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Site protected, no collecting permitted, or no access to beach |
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Quaternary
Neogene
Palaeogene
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Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic |
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Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian / Pre Cambrian |



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Fossils collected direct from cliff face |
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Fossils collected from the foreshore |
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Fossils collected from the cliff and foreshore |
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Location is a quarry or pit |
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Fossils collected from a stream or river bed, |
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Fossils collected from a farm field |
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Fossils collected from road or railway cutting. |
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Fossils collected from hill or mountain scree slope. |
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Fossils collected from rock outcrops. |
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Fossils collected from lake or reservoir banks. |
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Samples taken back for processing microfossils. |
| Museums and Places to visit |
Cromer Museum
East Cottages, Tucker Street, Cromer, NR27 9HB, Norfolk Collection details, Archaeology, Archives, Maritime, Natural Sciences, Social History. General information (Tel) : 01263 513543
Sandringham House and Gardens
near King's Lynn Norfolk home of Her Majesty The Queen , house and grounds open daily April to October, except when Royal Family in residence. Country Park, Museum , Gift Shop and Restaurants remain open during these periods.
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