![]() ![]() They are both enthusiastic and very passionate about what they do. The group gathered outside the museum and were met by our guides, Paddy and Chris who led us out onto the beach. The walks are timed to start a couple of hours before low tide and on the day we went this meant an early start at 9:15 a.m. There is an interesting display of local finds in the Lyme Regis Museum, some of them found by our guides on the fossil walk. The most common finds are ammonites and belemnites (bullet shaped remnants of a squid like creature) and coprolites (fossilised faeces) but it is also possible to find “devil’s toenails” (a type of mollusc), other fossilised shells and bones from ichthyosaurs, fish and other creatures. Including the first complete Ichthyosaur, a complete skeleton of the long-necked Plesiosaurus and a Pterodactylus found by Mary Anning (1799–1847) an ordinary working class woman who lived in the town all her life. ![]() ![]() There have been some important finds on these beaches in the past. As the cliffs crumble and large sections of them fall down onto the beach as landslips, fossils of creatures that died when Britain was part of a massive land mass and located nearer to the equator many millions of years ago start to be revealed. Lyme Regis is flanked by cliffs of shale, clay and mudstones with some limestone which are full of fossils from the Jurassic period. ![]()
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