Overstrand Fossil Hunt – Photo Gallery

Posted on April 10, 2017 Updated on April 27, 2017

More mammal bone! Found by Sam Caethoven

More mammal bone! Found by Aidan Philpott

A wee brachiopod found by Aidan Phipott

Solitary coral in chalk found by Aidan Philpott

A fish vertebra – possibly from the Cromer Forest Bed! found by Clare Ashworth

More mammal bone! – Found by Harry Walsh

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Some nice gypsum crystals found by Poppy Hewit.

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Belemnite found by Harry Walsh

A nice bit of Ventriculites sponge in chalk.

Two of many, many echinoids found by Chris Bite

First mammal bone of the day found by Mary Bite

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