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A fossil hunt on Filey Brigg in 2006. |
Please refer to the photos in the 'your photos' section.
The plants mentioned can be found in the sandstone beds just as the body of the Brigg turns East, and the rocks of the Brigg become visible. They are usually fragments of calcified wood, which when viewed end on show the ring structure of the tree from which they came.
Heading East along the South Side an out-jut of rock will be reached. This out-jut is known locally as ‘Agony Point’, a name not given to it half-heartedly as if is passed and the tide not treated with respect, it will entrap you until the tide recedes to let you past.
Past ‘Agony Point’ to where the brown boulder clay slopes to meet the rocks below, will be found the most fossiliferous strata the Brigg has to offer. By far the most fossiliferous of these is the Hambleton Oolite. This makes up the beds just at the base of the brown boulder clay and contains an abundance of sea urchins (at least 3 species), and bivalves.
Parts of ammonites can also be found, although in my many fossil hunts I have never found a whole specimen.
Below the oolite is a limestone bed containing hundreds of the same bivalves and occasional gastropods or the internal casts of their shells.
Very rare in this limestone are nautilus but they can be found.
I must stress that the tide must be regarded with respect. It is very easy to lose track of time when so much is there to see and collect. I speak from experience.
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