Programme of Field Visits 2010
Field Visits Secretary: David Turner
March 3rd (Wednesday)

Heme Bay, Kent. At a low spring tide the foreshore al Beltinge yields fine fossil fish remains including sharks' teeth from the Woolwich Bottom Beds and the OIdhaven Beds. Meet at the car park [TR 205 686] at the east end of Reculver Drive. Beltinge. at 7 a.m. Low water 8.18 a.m. Joint visit with the Medway Fossil and Mineral Society and Ihe Tertiary Research Group.
                                                                                                                                   [Leader. Marlin Rayner]
March 14th (Sunday) Evolution of Romney Marsh and Dungeness. Meet at 11 a.m. at Rye railway station [TQ 919 205]. Joint visit with lhe Essex Field Club.
                                                                                                                                   [Leader. Dr Peter Allen]
April 3rd -4th (Satl. - Sun.) Yorkshire Coast. A visit to some Jurassic fossil sites on the coast to be decided by the leader. Meet at 10 a.m. at the car park on the cliff top [NZ 832 156] at Kettleness. Joint vlsll wilh lhe Medway Fossil and Mineral Society.
                                                                                                   [Leaders: Bob Higgins and Derek Glover].
April 18th (Sunday) Warden Point, Sheppey, Kent. London Clay fossils. as well as baryte. selenite and pyrite, can be found on the foreshore here. Low water is at 9.51 a.m. Meet at 10 a.m. at the car park [TR 023 718]. Joint visil with the Tertiary Research Group.
                                                                                                                                    [Leader. David Turner]
April 25th (Sunday) The Naze, Walton, Essex. An opportunity to collect fossils from the fine exposures of Red Crag and London Clay. Meet at 11.30 a.m. at the cafe by the cliff-top tower [TM 264 234]. Low water 3.48 p.m. There is a charge for car parking. Joint visit with the Tertiary Research Group and the Essex Field Club.
                                                                                                                                      [Leader: Gerald Lucy]
May 29th - 30th (Sat. - Sun.) Dorset Coast. A weekend excursion to collect Jurassic fossils from the Lower UM. Meet at 10 am. at Eype car park [SY 446 917] nr Bridport. Joint visit with the Medway Fossil and Mineral Society.
                                                                                                                                    [Leader. Tony Holmes]
June 19th (Saturday) Kenswortb, Bedfordshlre. This working quarry in Upper and Middle Chalk on the Dunstable Downs yields fossil echinoids, corals, sponges, brachiopods. bivalveS and sharks' teeth as well as an occasional uncoiled ammonite at low levels. Meet at 10 a.m. at the Cemex Works car park [TL 014 1981 off the B4541.
                                                                                                                                    [Leader: David Turner}

July 4th
(Sunday)

 The Cliff, A1thome, Essex. A visit to the London Clay foreshore at Cliff Reach [TQ 92 I 967], where fossil sharks' teeth. crabs and molluscs may be found. Meet at Althorne station [905 979] at lOam. Joint v/sit with the Tertiary Research Group and the Essex Field Club.
                                                                                                     [Leaders: Rick Johnson and Jeff Saward]
July 25th (Sunday) Crag Sites of Suffolk Various sites in the Coralline Crag and Red Crag will be visited. Meet at 10.30 a.m. at Woodbridge railway station car park [TM 273 487]. Joint visit with the Suffolk Natural History Society and the Tertiary Research Group.
                                                                                                                                   [Leader. Bob Markham]
August 21st (Saturday)

Bull's Lodge Quarry, Boreham, nr Chelmsford, Essex. This working gravel quarry shows boulder clay deposited by an ice-sheet. in which derived fossils can be found. whilst the underlying Kesgrave river gravels contain far-travelled boulders from north Wales. Meet at 10 am. in the quarry car park [TL 738 1041 off Generals Lane by the roundabout. Joint visit! with the Essex Field Club.
                                                                                                                                   [Leader. Dr Peter Allen]

October 10th or 17th
(Sunday)

Members please note the change of date (previously September 19th) if you are going on this trip please contact our membership secretary David Turner, (details on the back page of the Society's newsletter).  Personally I think this a luck break as it always rains that mid weekend in September. When I can confirm the exact date it will be updated. R.C. 24 August 2009

Station Quarry, Blockley, Gloucestershire. Another visit to this famous quarry in the Lower Lias with its diverse fauna of ammonites, bivalvaes and occasional bones and teeth of marine reptiles. Meet at 9.45 a.m. at Moreton-in-Marsh car park or 10 a.m. outside the quarry [SP 183 368]. Joint visit with the Medwat Fossil and Mineral Society.
                                                                                                                                      [Leader: Bob Higgins]

The Kent Geology Group has arranged two visits, on Sunday 25 April and Sunday 19 September, to
Smokejacks Brickworks, near Ockley, Surrey, to collect fossil insects and plant remains from the
Weald Clay. Dinosaur bones, including Baryonyx, have also been found here. If you would like to
attend, please phone Peter Austen on 01322 899237 at least ten days before the visit. Meet at
10.30 a.m. in the brickworks car park [TQ 116 372]. Charge £2 per person.

Please sign the relevant attendance sheet, available at monthly meetings, if you wish to come on
any field visit, or contact the Field Visits Secretary to reserve a place. If subsequently you decide
not to come, please inform the Field Visits Secretary. If you get delayed and expect to arrive late, please phone 07884 372885 so that a message may be passed on to the leader and participants will not be kept waiting unnecessarily. This mobile phone will be switched on for only 30 minutes before the starting time of each field meeting.

Members are expected to make their own travelling arrangements and are responsible for insuring
themselves and their equipment. Children are welcome to attend most field visits provided that
they are accompanied by an adult, but access to working quarries may be refused.

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