Hunstanton Cliffs Norfolk UK

[Jesamine]

Hi again. Last weekend I took a trip to Old Hunstanton to check out the amazing contrast of formation cliffs and with hopes of finding some nice fossils. 

The cliffs are made up of three layers the lowest rusty brown colour is the Carstone Formation of the Early Cretaceous Albion Stage.

The band through the middle is a bright red colour known as the Hunstanton Formation also Early Cretaceous Albion Stage.

The top layer is the white Ferriby Chalk Formation from the Late Cretaceous Cenomanian Stage. What a contrast!

These cliffs feel much safer to walk below unlike Charmouth or Lyme Regis. The material is very solid and the white layer doesn't erode quickly.

It wasn't the place for looking for fossils that the sea had washed out.

It is also a very shelly beach, so my eye was struggling to pick out fossil shapes with all the broken shells everywhere.

I did find some interesting looking things in the large chunks. This rock was a good meter across, so I couldn't collect it.

It contains a lot of shells, belemnites and possibly sponges, but please correct me, as I don't really know a thing.

 

 

Then this nice piece with lots of small pieces. Sorry I forgot to take a ruler with me.

 

 

 

 I did find some carriable promising rocks.

I've brought this lot home with me for some practice prepping.

Does anyone have any idea of what I might find in any of these rocks?

Where would be a good place to start? I'm using a dremel 290.

Thanks, Jes.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 19, 2023 by Jesamine
Photo in wrong place

[automech]

Hello. I'm not sure but, in the very last picture, at the bottom of that rock, there seems to be a root of a shark tooth. 

[Jesamine]

2 hours ago, automech said:

Hello. I'm not sure but, in the very last picture, at the bottom of that rock, there seems to be a root of a shark tooth. 

Wow. Thank you. I've never found a tooth before. I will  start with that one. 

Jes.

[automech]

Good Luck!

[SPrice]

If you haven't watched Andrew Cuff prep fossils with a Dremel 290...here's some of his videos.

 

 

[Advantage]

Inoceramid sections, belemnite sections and some sedimentary features.

[Ancient Bones]

Jesamine  I did find some belemnite guards, shrimp burrows, a brachipod  and a solitary scleractinian coral on my only trip there. Good luck in your future hunting and Happy Christmas !