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YOUR experiences, reports and comments of Isle of Sheppey |
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fossiling at the minster end |
Hunting at the Minster end we found many fossils including shark teeth, nipa pods and many many gastropods. The pyrite patches were particularly fossiliferous. The minster end is better for families with small children as there is easy parking cafe and toilets near by. however the tide must be watched as the foreshore is so flat the water rises perrilously quickly
22/7/2007 - Dave
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Report by Nick |
Hello my name is Nick, I have this weekend vissited the Isle of Sheppy fossil hunting at Wardon Point, I found the location easily and managed to find a couple of sharks teeth and some gastropods but my best find was what I think is a small turtle - it is about 10cm long and 5cm wide blackish brown and hard. It looks a little bit like an carved chicken but i don't think that it is a bird because it is quite symetrical to look at and has four knobles of bone in the positions of where a turtles legs would be. Please could you tell me how i could identify it as a turtle so that i can be sure it is one. once I have cleaned it up I hope to send a Photo of it to you for your website as I haven't seen one on here yet. Please reply asap, thank you in anticipation, Nick. |
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Joe Shimmin and Flavia Faedo. |
Sheppey can produce stunning finds or it can produce nothing. If you're local to the area it's well worth the "nothing" trips there for the one that does produce something special, but for a visitor who has only one day, don't be dissapointed if you pick up only one shark tooth, a couple of battered crab nodules and some wood. That said, there are loads of beautiful pyrite gastropods to be had and you can also find fossil seeds if you look long and hard enough; and then there's always the enigmatic Otodus teeth or the fish head fossils that you could stumble across. Not to mention crocodile, snake and turtle bones.
Flip a coin, will you be lucky? Or will you come home covered in mud with nothing to show for it? |
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Fossils from Warden Bay, Sheppy, Kent. |
Report by: Daniel.
Date: 17/02/2005
It was bitterly cold at 10am in the morning, but the weather soon warmed up and the winds calmed down too. I made my way west along the beach towards Wardens Point when the tide was at its lowest. I was amazed that I could just scan the beach for fossils and there they were lying there. Just on the first day, I found 1 fossilized oyster shell, about 2 dozen fossilized pieces of wood, 1 slightly damaged shark or fish vertebrae and a few other odd fossils. Remember, I had only found all these fossils from walking within 1 or 2 hours, but if your really keen, then the best way to search for fossils is to get down on your hands and knees and search for the fossils then. This is especially important if your searching for sharks teeth, turtle remains, fossilized wood and much more. |
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