How to find fossils at Charmouth beach - Kid friendly fossil collecting from The Fossil Academy
A short video for the families wanting to go collecting fossils on the world famous Charmouth beach! No Hammers required! Learn what to look out for and some good places to start your hunting.
workshop session 1 cleaning fossils from Charmouth
Workshop session from a few nights ago, got a new GoPro from the big red man so will be recording all my sessions in the workshop from now on. Don't forget to whack the SUBSCRIBE button to keep up to date. should have plenty of new content coming out on a more regular basis. The filming and editing ain't Steven Spielburg but I'm still learning
Lyme Regis Fossil Hunting After Huge Storm
I've just got back from 6 days fossil collecting at Lyme Regis and Charmouth. Luckily as we got there a big storm had hit the beaches called storm Brandon. There were plenty of finds if you're willing to get wet. Lots of ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and ammonites. It was great hunting at the same place Mary Anning collected fossils.
Introduction to the Fossil Academy
The Fossil Academy is based on the world famous Jurassic coast on the south coast of England and is your one stop shop for instructional short videos on collecting and cleaning your own fossils. I will be taking you through how I go about finding and preparing my finds, creating beautiful pieces to help inspire you to get out there and go find your own piece of natural history!
Join me on my journey where I will take you through cleaning a variety of fossil finds, some my own and some for customers.
Please let me know if you would like me to make a video on a specific subject, be that cleaning a certain type of fossil or using a certain type of tool.
Right, I'm of out down to the beach! Good look out there and happy hunting! Stay safe
Regards
Dan
Lyme Regis Ammonite Preparation
Showing you how to go about preparing a calcite (Calcium Carbonate) crystal ammonite out of one of the many types of sedimentary nodule found in the Black Venn Marls between Lyme Regis and Charmouth on the West Dorset coast. This gives you some idea of how the fossil shops, museums and rock-hounds do it!
The equipment used in this video is a Model TT pneumatic fossil preparation pen produced by Ken Mannion and currently in use at the Fossil Workshop in Lyme Regis.
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Lyme Regis Fossil Festival || Day Out With Kids || Sarah & Squirrel Vlog
We went to Lyme Regis for the FOSSIL FESTIVAL and had a fantastic time full of children hands on activities, beach play, ice cream and extremely variable weather.
Living in Exeter not too far from many of the Jurassic Coast spots here in the South West of England we are very lucky to have great opportunities for fantastic, active day trips as a family, but the Fossil Festival is something that I urge families to give a go!
Usually over the beginning of May spanning 3 days, you can hear talks, see demos, get involved with workshops, go on fossiling tours and walks, and thats just stuff for grown ups!
For children there are endless performances, hands on opportunities to play with local enthusiasts, story tellers, great campaigns who want to inspire children, fossils to touch and feel, junior palaeontology play with guides who can answer questions and so much more.
Take a peek and plan next years trip!
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Jurassic Coast Fossil Finding
Why not come on a fossil hunting trip and learn the correct way to collect fossils Here i am on a sunny sunday( 11th November 2018).I am fossil hunting East Of Lyme Regis at low tide.Many people ask how do you know which rocks to break?I have over 35 years experience of saving fossis from the destruction the sea.The fate of fossils when big seas have washed them around and eroded them can be terrible to see. I carefully scour the beaches in the winter months painstakingly looking for the right rocks to break open .I keep hammering to a minimum as some rocks are worth bringing back whole to prepare carefully in the fossil prepartion workshop.I see people hammering the actual cliffs into the next century.This is exceptionally dangerous and against the fossil collecting code of conduct.Instead of this stupidity! just patiently take a look at the beach. Everyday you can see whats been freshly revealed from the mudslides and mudslips along the Jurassic coast at low tide.The sea does the work for you and the best tools are your eyes when spotting fossils!Warning -when hammering always wear geological safety spectacles and sturdy gloves.
Best Ever Find!
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Quite possibly the best fossil find I've had! It doesn't look much at the moment but over the course of the next few episodes I'm expecting amazing things!
Will be an amazing multi block with numerous different species of ammonites in it AND I really can't wait to get started on it!
Finding fossils - Basic beach kit - The Fossil Academy
I get asked a lot about what bags I use and which hammers I take down the beach when I'm out collecting fossils so I have made this episode to answer some of those questions.
I found a decent ammonite block on Friday while out collecting in the storms on the beach at Charmouth which I show at the end of this short video. I will be using as my first video project block, showing progress from start to end of the cleaning process with regular updates posted to my channel. Don't forget to hit subscribe so you can be kept up to date with all the latest work coming out the workshop.
Fossil Academy Update
So, I've been a bit off radar for ages, just needed to get something out to let folk know I've not fell down a big hole. Got some content planned I'm really looking forward getting shot and uploaded. Back in the game! Brap! Brap!
Tales Of Lyme Regis - history of the town
History of Lyme Regis - from the 'Lyme Experience' audio visual display that used to be on the promenade in the early 1990's.
MARY ANNING Mad Woman of Lyme Promo 2019
Mary Anning
– The Mad Woman of Lyme
by Peter John Cooper ( for AsOne theatre Company)
TOURING WIDELY from March 2020
For more information AsOne Artistic Director, Jane McKell
on: 01305 835541/ 07778 737700
“A touching insight into the passionate nature of a woman who battled & overcame prejudice in a male dominated world.”
Marion Cox, Dorset Echo, & Daily Echo Bournemouth & Poole
In 2012 AsOne theatre company completed a 20-date Wessex five county tour of a then newly commissioned play, ‘The Cabinet Maker’s Daughter’. In association with The Jurassic Coast Earth Festival and the Cultural Olympiad ( the company home base, Weymouth & Portland was the Olympic Sailing Venue) – the play told the remarkable story of 19th Century Dorset fossil hunter, Mary Anning. Anning was the world’s first female palaeontologist who eventually had collectors beating a path to her Lyme Regis fossil depot. They in turn named the fossils after themselves and Mary’s name receded into the mists of time; forgotten. We have decided to tour to Nationally this time, developing not only our reach as a company but telling this remarkable story to those less likely to know of it. So – along with associate playwright, Peter John Cooper – re-name, re-develop the play to make sure this amazing woman’s name is remembered: MARY ANNING “The mad woman of Lyme” as the locals not so kindly called her towards the end of her days. In 2010, the Royal Society recognized Mary Anning as one of the ten British women who have most influenced the development of science. We are passionate to further what is known by relatively few – self educated, Mary Anning’s name will not be forgotten. A trailblazer for all young people from any background to become scientists. A multi-media drama with – innovative island set, film, puppetry, and techno-soundscape.
‘…powerful, thought provoking, with brilliant performances – every bit as good as the shows I have seen this week in London’
Eunice Kennedy, Crediton AC
It is 1846, and the little town of Lyme Regis, Dorset is battered by howling winter-gales. Dying and increasingly dependent on Laudanum, Mary Anning embarks on a strange dream journey through a life where she challenged the world of men and shook their beliefs to the core. She is haunted by hallucinations of old friends, enemies and even the dinosaurs she spent her life hacking out of the living rock. Into this world of dreams walks a man she never thought she would see again and attempts to find a resolution to their enigmatic relationship; a play about life and death; frustration and achievement; dreams and memories of long, long ago.
It is said that struck by lightning as a baby, 19th Century fossil hunter, Mary Anning was destined to be special; she went onto rock the world of men, science & belief. Dorset’s favourite AsOne Theatre is preparing to refresh this gripping story, touring nationally out of its county base to city theatres as well as rural town venues.
We offer workshops for school’s attending performances; and post-show Q & A’s which audiences appreciate; our plays stimulate great debate.
“Very unusual & thought provoking – especially with projected images” Lighthouse, Poole audience member
Jurassic Coast Earth Festival Horace the Pliosaur Take 2.AVI
Sarah Butterworth's (Emerald Ant) fabulous life-sized pliosaur becomes a star of the small screen. See him in Lyme Regis 4-6 May, Dorchester 2-4 June, Seaton 22 June, Weymouth 7 July, Portland Illuminated Picnic 22 July, and Exmouth 5 August.
Mary Anning's Fossil Depot
An interactive live performance, as a part of a cross curricular arts project Jurassic Creatures, for Dorset ane E Devon Junior/middle schools 'Mary Anning's Fossil Depot'..19th Century Mary Anning of Lyme Regis discovered the first ichthyosaur skeleton with her brother Joe when she was just twelve years old; she also found Plesiosaurs, Pterodactyls and many other important marine fossils. Struck by lightning as a babe in arms, the self-educated daughter of a poor cabinet maker; this fossil hunter rose to become the world's first female palaeontologist. Questioning how the world began.
Jurassic Creatures by AsOne Theatre - in association with Fossil Fun for Kids - is an cross curricular arts day; a mixture live interactive, performance, art and drama workshops planned to tour junior/middle schools and museums during 2012; the children are invited to step into Mary Anning's Depot where Mary will introduce her fossil curios with exciting stories of discovery and achievement; then the children will paint fossil moulds, find out more about past giant marine creatures, and enjoy a drama workshop imagining what it was like to be Mary on the stormy Jurassic cliffs.
Help AsOne tell this important story during the Cultural Olympiad period; help us produce a piece of theatre that will engage a new generation so they can be inspired by a role model who achieved so much with no more than a burning passion; a dedication to discover and enlighten -- exactly what AsOne will do with Mary's story.
AsOne Theatre's Mary Anning's Fossil Depot; an interactive performance
An interactive live performance, as a part of a cross curricular arts project Jurassic Creatures, for Dorset ane E Devon Junior/middle schools 'Mary Anning's Fossil Depot'..19th Century Mary Anning of Lyme Regis discovered the first ichthyosaur skeleton with her brother Joe when she was just twelve years old; she also found Plesiosaurs, Pterodactyls and many other important marine fossils. Struck by lightning as a babe in arms, the self-educated daughter of a poor cabinet maker; this fossil hunter rose to become the world's first female palaeontologist. Questioning how the world began.
Jurassic Creatures by AsOne Theatre - in association with Fossil Fun for Kids - is an cross curricular arts day; a mixture live interactive, performance, art and drama workshops planned to tour junior/middle schools and museums during 2012; the children are invited to step into Mary Anning's Depot where Mary will introduce her fossil curios with exciting stories of discovery and achievement; then the children will paint fossil moulds, find out more about past giant marine creatures, and enjoy a drama workshop imagining what it was like to be Mary on the stormy Jurassic cliffs.
Help AsOne tell this important story during the Cultural Olympiad period; help us produce a piece of theatre that will engage a new generation so they can be inspired by a role model who achieved so much with no more than a burning passion; a dedication to discover and enlighten -- exactly what AsOne will do with Mary's story.
Devon man takes 15 minutes to find ancient ammonite
A man inspired to take up fossil hunting by Sir David Attenborough made the find of a lifetime on his first outing - a giant ammonite.
The huge fossil, found by 21-year-old Archie Faiers, is 190 million years old and took the stone mason just 15 minutes into his first ever fossil dig to find.
Discovered on a Jurassic Coast beach in East Devon, the fossil is of the species Microderoceras Birchi, typical of ammonites found in the area.
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Mr Faiers said he decided to go hunting for prehistoric relics after watching the BBC documentary Attenborough and the Sea Dragon.
He took his dogs for a walk along the Jurassic Coast and within minutes spotted an interesting rock in earth disturbed by a recent cliff fall.
It turned out to be an ammonite fossil that the 21-year-old later discovered was almost 200 million years old.
Mr Faiers, named the UK's top young Architectural Stone Mason, was on a strip of Jurassic Coast beach between Seaton and Lyme Regis when he made the discovery.
He wasn't far from where Sir David filmed the recovery of the fossilised remains of a large Ichthyosaur, or Sea Dragon, which was broadcast on the BBC two weeks ago.
Mr Faiers, from Uplyme, Devon, said 'I knew we were close to the spot where the TV fossil was found, there had been an overnight cliff fall and I spotted a rounded rock on the beach.
'I knew that these rocks are the ones that could have a fossil inside.'
Archie heaved the heavy rock back along the beach into his workshop.
He added: 'I started to chip away at the outside off the rock and I soon realised that there was an ammonite inside.
'I'm using my traditional stone mason tools in preparing it but I need much finer tools so things are on hold at the moment.'
Ammonites are perhaps the most widely known fossil, particularly in the UK where hundreds are dug up along the Jurassic Coast every year.
The ancient sea creatures sported a ribbed spiral-form shell, and lived between 240-65 million years ago, when they were wiped out along with the dinosaurs.
Ammonites were cephalopods; their nearest living relatives are animals like squid, octopus and cuttlefish.
They ate starfish, small crustaceans such as shrimp and other small marine creatures, using their tentacles to probe the seafloor before snapping up prey.
The creatures moved using jet propulsion via a tube near their mouth that squirted water, much like some species of modern squid.
Seaton Jurassic Coast Visitor Centre Advert
Pupils in Year 4 at Seaton Primary School have planned a visitor centre for Seaton to represent the Jurassic Coast World Heritage site in Seaton.
This is a potential TV advert to publicise the centre. It was made in a morning and was all the pupil's creation.
Fossil Hunting at Charmouth Beach with my Sister
What is it? Palaeontologists please help!
I have some assumptions -
Coiled Nautiloid - Ordovician
Ammonite - Jurrassic/Cretaceous
Charmouth Beach Dorset Collograph
Diane Roberts shows her most ambitious collographic plate to date being made as a part of interrogating the landscape project organised by DVA