Essex Rock & Mineral Society Field Trip
Shropshire Weekend
10th & 11th May 2003

No words just some pictures and locations:

Overtons Rough an "Ordovician Trilobite" site. Leigh/Minsterly Salop.

Bob Kennedy at Overtons Rough!

Club members at Deltons Wood near Minsterly, looking for trilobites!

Three members enjoying searching the shales for trilobites in Deltons Wood.

(Left to right: Emma Webb, Paul Heather, and Alan West's son.)

Deltons Wood again! Must be a good spot, they can't be bothered to pose for pictures.

Bob Kennedy speaking about the "unconformity" at this classic SSSI on the river Onny. Upper Ordovician (Caradoc) - Lower Silurian. Llandovery series.

Site: Acton Scott.

River Onny near Acton Scott.

Now for a moan! I suspect that to find trilobites requires lots of splitting shales, please do wear safety specs and gloves to help protect your eyes and hands. Where the section being searched is steep, put on your hard hats especially if someone is working above you. Not wishing to seem a kill joy, your safety and that of others around, is of prime importance, far in excess of collecting fossils!

What's the pick axe for in the picture above, no real need is there? Nature erodes rock quick enough, leave the axe at home! (Couldn't have been one of our members as we use JCBs.)

So many on the trip yet nothing has turned up at meetings. Don't just go on trips, do record your finds and thoughts in a notebook at least. What may be a common find, or a classic site taken for granted, will one day be just history. You and others may find the records useful! Share the fun with us all, please!

Many thanks to David Turner who supplied the photographs. The locations and technical detail are mostly as they appear written on the back of the pictures and have not been checked for accuracy. They look like very scenic and enjoyable locations which I am sorry to have missed because of family commitments, perhaps another time?

Shropshire Trip more:

R Coleman, July 2003