Lyme Regis High Street26 views
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Lyme Regis looking out to sea from the High Street35 viewsNote: the ammonite-shaped street lights - this town makes a lot of it's foddil herritage
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Charmouth - Fred scouring the beach30 viewsAs you can see, it was a sunny but chilly day
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Charmouth - belemnite guard40 viewsThis is typical of the common fossils you find in the mud at Charmouth. The belemnite was a long-thin creature related to squids and this 'guard' was park of the hard, bony structure inside the body that formed a rudimentary skeleton and helped it jet through the water.
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Charmouth - cliffs & beach40 viewsThis land-slip was happening as we walked down the beach - 5 minutes after we turned nd walked away the boulder at the top of the cliff was on the beach!
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Charmouth - cliffs & beach32 viewsThe sea was quite rough all day, which hindered or beach-combing because although the tide was going out all day the waves kept pushing us higher up the beach than we'd have liked... and soaking our feet on a few occasions!
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Charmouth - cliffs34 viewsFrom this pic you can see the various fossil-bearing layers in the cliffs at Charmouth. They are mainly mixtures to very weak shale and mud, interspersed with limestone.
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Charmouth - cliffs & beach37 views
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Charmouth - ammonite38 viewsThis is a typical fossil found on the beach, washed out of the cliffs by the waves. The seqment in the pic is just a small section from the outside of the shell, which would have been completely round like a snail.
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Charmouth - ammonite - side view41 viewsThe ammonite has been turned to 'iron pyrite', which glistens in the sun, and calcite, which appears as a white crystal. The ammonites had chambers in their shell to help them float in the water.
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Charmouth - belemnite guard cross-section34 viewsSometimes you can find belemnite guards that have been cracked open to reveal the crystaline structure inside
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Charmouth - cliffs & beach52 viewsA view down the far end of the beach - the hill in the distance is a well known local landmark called Golden Cap. Fred can be seen up to his ankles in mud ;-)
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