First step to wisdom right?
So the two most likely sites I'll be hitting first will be Burnham-on-Crouch and East Mersea. Reading those two profiles, looks like a non-zero amount of sieving will be required to find anything, so I guess my first question is whats a good sieve to get? I'm assuming your basic kitchen equipment is not whats being referred to here.
Secondly, in terms of identification, what are some good resources? Preferably books since I absorb printed info much more readily than something from a document online, but I'll take online if that's all there is. A sub-section of this is I need a good resource for what all the words mean and why something being Eocene and not Miocene is relevant, to pick a random example out of the hat. I absolutely appreciate that some of this comes from reading a bunch of stuff, but somewhere to start would be handy.
Thirdly... I don't have a specific third question, so whats the thing you wish you'd known when you first started collecting?
Many thanks in advance.
Dragonlover