Tag: fossils

4 March 2022

Seatown is a lesser-known beach on the Jurassic Coast, just east of Golden Cap, the highest point on the south coast. I visited it at the lowest tide this quarter – the spring spring tide at just under 0.5m, hoping to see some rocks that are usually underwater.…

15 October 2020

Today I went in search of Lyme history on Monmouth Beach, west of the town. We tend to think of Lyme Regis as being primarily a tourist town, but like most coastal settlements, it had a number of industries in the past – fishing of course – but…

23 October 2017

… is not gold – a well known Shakespearean quote from The Merchant of Venice. It’s certainly true in geology, where there are any number of gold coloured minerals. Where I live, there are large quantities of “fool’s gold” or iron pyrites – actually a rather brassy looking…