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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.


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


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.


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.


The Caistor St Edmund quarry in Norfolk is particularly good for fish remains which can be found in the lower beds. Echinoid's, brachiopods and bivalves are also common here along with Sponges from the flint spoil heaps.


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.


Hillington Chalk pit is not as fossiliferious as most other chalk quarries, however echinoid's, brachiopods and bivalves can all be found. The quarry is quite large.


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.


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.


Happisburgh is sadly famous for its rapid rates of erosion and a graveyard of previous attempts to stop erosion with old broken sea walls. The sea refuses to give up and still causes massive problems for the locals. Derives fossils can be collected.


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