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An Excellent location, you can find almost anything, Ammonites, Shells, Belemnites, Reptiles (such as Ichthyosaurs), Echinoid's and more from the Boulder Clay and Mammalian and Bird Remains from the Forest Bed during scouring conditions. |
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Ramsholt is one of the best locations for fossils in Suffolk yielding Sharks Teeth, Lobsters, Fruit, shells from the London clay, Shells, Sharks teeth from the Red Crag, Corals, Echinoid's, from the Coralline and Complete Crabs, fish remains, Sharks teeth from the basement Bed. |
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Rich Inland Red Crag Pit, a vast variety of shells along with Sharks Teeth and Rays. An excellent location for any keen crag collector. |
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Levington is a location along the River Orwell where London Clay is exposed in large cliffs and on the foreshore. Levington has yielded a large number of reptile remains including one complete skeleton. |
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It has only been in recent years that Bawdsey is once again being washed out by the sea, but this time it is a small cliff North of the famous (now overgrown) 'Red Crag' cliffs. London clay on the foreshore is rich in fish, bird and shark. |
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At Easton Wood Cliffs, rich Shell Beds yield a wide range of shells, fish, bird and small mammal remains. There are six shell beds in total, during extreme scours which occur on average once every 10 years, the highly rich bone bearing bed yields many mammal remains. |
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At Easton Bavents, rich Shell Beds yield a wide range of shells, fish, bird and small mammal remains, the Easton Bavents Stone Layer yields a wide range of mammalian remains including deer, mammoth, horse, walrus and whale. |
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The disused part of Wangford Quarry has very thick Norwich Crag Shell Beds, these run for several meters packed with a vast number of various mollusc species and small mammal remains. Below this Larger mammal bones have been found. |
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The disused quarry contains good sections of the Chalky Boulder Clay, seen at Pakefield and Corton. The rain washes fossils out of the beds, and you can find ammonites, belemnites and if lucky, reptile remains on the surface of the exposures. |
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Very little is known about the Covehithe Shell Beds, exposed on rare occasions. It is believed that they are a rear mollusc deposit within the Baventian stage. Other Fossils such as Echinoid's and Corals can be found in the Glacial Pebble Deposits. |
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Nacton Shore is a location along the River Orwell where London Clay is exposed in a small cliff and on the foreshore. Nacton Shore and Levington area has yielded a large number of reptile remains including one complete skeleton. |
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Along the river Stour, Pleistocene cliffs at Stutton Ness yield the bones of mammoths and deer, whilst foreshore exposures of Eocene London clay yield a wide variety of fossil seeds. |
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This is a new fossil yielding location, only recently exposed. During scouring conditions, Coralline Crag exposed below beach level yields hard blocks full of shells, echinoids, bryozoans and corals. |
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Once a famous location for Boulder Clay Fossils such as Ammonites and Ichthyosaurs and rich in Mammal remains from the Forest Bed, since the building of a sea defence, very little is found apart form ammonites after heavy rainfall. |
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The Glacial Pebble Beds at Benacre yield a range of derived fossils including echinoid's, sponges, shells and belemnites. At the base of the cliff, the Baventian Clay is several metres thick. |
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Below the Glacial Beds at Dunwich Cliffs begins the Norwich Crag. During Scouring Conditions, Mammal Remains can be found below beach level, bones can also be found after storms washed up. Dunwich hasn't scoured for many years. |
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Thorington Pit is now disused, the Westleton Beds sometimes yield the bones of large mammals. Glacial beds can also yield fossils such as shells etc especially on the surface. |
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Fossils collected direct from cliff face |
 Foreshore |
Fossils collected from the foreshore |
 Cliff/Foreshore |
Fossils collected from the cliff and foreshore |
 Quarry |
Location is a quarry or pit |
 Stream |
Fossils collected from a stream or river bed, |
 Field |
Fossils collected from a farm field |
 Cutting |
Fossils collected from road or railway cutting. |
 Scree Slope |
Fossils collected from hill or mountain scree slope. |
 Rock Outcrop |
Fossils collected from rock outcrops. |
 Lake / Reservoir |
Fossils collected from lake or reservoir banks. |
 Microfossils |
Samples taken back for processing microfossils. |
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Suffolk

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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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Fossil Plants of the
London Clay
Over 250 species of the rich and diverse flora of the London Clay are illustrated. Written by Margaret E. Collinson. 242 text-figs, 1983 Particularly suited for London Clay locations such as Sheppey, Maylandsea, Burnham on Crouch.
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