Visits Programme
Field Visits Secretary phone contact -
David Turner on 01245-267450
Please remember - booking is essential
- Contact David Turner 01245 267450 - Field Visits Secretary.
If necessary leave a message, clearly giving your name, contact number and group name.
Participants are reminded that they -
Summary list of 2019 ERMS visits:
More details below
Saturday 6th July
Thames gravel, glacial till - Bull’s Lodge Quarry, Boreham.
Saturday 17th August
Thames gravel, glacial till - Highwood Quarry, Dunmow.
Tuesday 24th September
Sedgwick Museum & Building Stones – Cambridge.
Saturday 5th October - note change of day -
Tertiary clays & sands, glacial outwash, Thorndon Country Park, Essex.
Please remember - booking is essential
- contact David Turner 01245 267450 - Field Visits Secretary
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MORE DETAILS –
March 24 (Sunday) Isle of Sheppey, Kent. London Clay fossils together with barite, pyrite and
selenite crystals can be found on the foreshore at Warden Point. Meet in the car park at Warden (NW of Leysdown-on-Sea) (grid ref. TR 023718) at 8.00 a.m. The early start is due to tides (9:15am low tide). [Leader: Jeff Saward]. This locality may be extremely muddy so please bring appropriate clothing and footwear.
April Date to be Confirmed Mundays Hill Quarry, Bedfordshire (am) & Totternhoe, (pm). Mundays Hill Quarry
near Leighton Buzzard reveals Lower Greensand and Gault with good sedimentary
structures, trace fossils, fossil wood and quartz crystals. The visit to Totternhoe is to see Totternhoe Stone and Chalk. Joint visit with the Hertfordshire Geological Society. [Leader: Dr. Haydon Bailey]. Details to be confirmed.
April 28 (Sunday) The Naze, Walton, Essex. Fine exposures of Red Crag and London Clay where
fossils may be found. Meet at Essex Wildlife Trust’s Naze Visitor Centre near the cliff top tower, Old Hall Lane, CO14 8LE (grid ref. TM 264234) at 11.00 am (Low tide 1:17pm). Car parking charges apply. A garden sieve and a trowel will be useful. Children are particularly welcome. [Leader: Gerald Lucy].
June 2 (Sunday) Saffron Walden, Essex. A visit to this historic market town to see geology in the
town centre which includes several good erratic boulders. In the morning we will also be visiting a disused chalk quarry nature reserve which is a 15 minute walk from the town centre. In the afternoon we will visit the geology displays in Saffron Walden Museum (entry charge). Refreshments will be available at the leader’s home in the town centre (please bring a packed lunch). Meet at Saffron Walden Museum, Museum Street, CB10 1JL at 10:30 am. [Leader: Gerald Lucy].
July 6 (Saturday) Bulls Lodge Quarry, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex. NOTE: NEW MEETING PLACE
Our annual visit to this working quarry. Thick till (boulder clay), deposited by an ice sheet, contains derived fossils and erratics. The underlying Kesgrave Thames river gravels contain boulders from as far as North Wales and S.W. England, and Hertfordshire Puddingstone.
Meet 9:30am in the access road off General's Lane at grid ref: TL 7423 1009
Helmet, boots and high visibility jacket essential. (Working quarry - no under-18s permitted).
[Leader: Dr. Peter Allen].
August 17 (Saturday) Highwood Quarry, Easton Park Estate, Great Dunmow, Essex
Another visit to this fairly new sand and gravel quarry. Chalky till (boulder clay), deposited by an ice sheet, contains derived fossils and erratics. The underlying Kesgrave Thames river gravels contain boulders from as far as North Wales and S.W. England, and Hertfordshire Puddingstone. In the floor of the quarry is London Clay which contains occasional fossils. Meet 9:00am at the quarry access road (SRC aggregates) on the B1256 at the A120 turn off between Takeley and Dunmow (TL 601218) CM6 1SL (nearest post code). Helmet, boots and high visibility jacket essential. (Working quarry - no under-18s permitted). [Leader: Dr. Peter Allen].
Sept. 24 (Tuesday) Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. An afternoon visit to the
Sedgwick Museum to see the Watson collection, a magnificent display of building stones in mahogany cases that is not normally open to the public. We will also be able to see other displays in this museum which is one of the finest geological museums in the country. This will be followed by a walk around the city centre to look at building stones. Meet at 2:00pm in the entrance foyer of Sedgwick Museum, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ (those travelling by car are recommended to use Cambridge Park and Ride). Entry to the museum free. [Leader: Gerald Lucy].
October 5 (Saturday) - note change of day - Thorndon Country Park, Brentwood, Essex. A visit to the gravel cliff that was created by members in 2011, revealing 450,000 year-old glacial outwash. We will be finding out what more it can tell us about Brentwood’s prehistoric past. Meet at 2:00pm in the Thorndon North Countryside Centre car park (parking charge), Thorndon Park North, The Avenue, Brentwood, Essex, CM13 3RZ (TQ 607914). [Leaders: Ian and Ros Mercer].
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- Contact David Turner 01245 267450 - Field Visits Secretary.
If necessary leave a message, clearly giving your name, contact number and group name.
Participants are reminded that they -
- must book a place with the Field Visits Secretary, David Turner.
- must read and abide by the safety information issued by the group to which they belong
- must sign the leader’s register sheet giving emergency contact information.
Summary list of 2019 ERMS visits:
More details below
Saturday 6th July
Thames gravel, glacial till - Bull’s Lodge Quarry, Boreham.
Saturday 17th August
Thames gravel, glacial till - Highwood Quarry, Dunmow.
Tuesday 24th September
Sedgwick Museum & Building Stones – Cambridge.
Saturday 5th October - note change of day -
Tertiary clays & sands, glacial outwash, Thorndon Country Park, Essex.
Please remember - booking is essential
- contact David Turner 01245 267450 - Field Visits Secretary
------------------
MORE DETAILS –
March 24 (Sunday) Isle of Sheppey, Kent. London Clay fossils together with barite, pyrite and
selenite crystals can be found on the foreshore at Warden Point. Meet in the car park at Warden (NW of Leysdown-on-Sea) (grid ref. TR 023718) at 8.00 a.m. The early start is due to tides (9:15am low tide). [Leader: Jeff Saward]. This locality may be extremely muddy so please bring appropriate clothing and footwear.
April Date to be Confirmed Mundays Hill Quarry, Bedfordshire (am) & Totternhoe, (pm). Mundays Hill Quarry
near Leighton Buzzard reveals Lower Greensand and Gault with good sedimentary
structures, trace fossils, fossil wood and quartz crystals. The visit to Totternhoe is to see Totternhoe Stone and Chalk. Joint visit with the Hertfordshire Geological Society. [Leader: Dr. Haydon Bailey]. Details to be confirmed.
April 28 (Sunday) The Naze, Walton, Essex. Fine exposures of Red Crag and London Clay where
fossils may be found. Meet at Essex Wildlife Trust’s Naze Visitor Centre near the cliff top tower, Old Hall Lane, CO14 8LE (grid ref. TM 264234) at 11.00 am (Low tide 1:17pm). Car parking charges apply. A garden sieve and a trowel will be useful. Children are particularly welcome. [Leader: Gerald Lucy].
June 2 (Sunday) Saffron Walden, Essex. A visit to this historic market town to see geology in the
town centre which includes several good erratic boulders. In the morning we will also be visiting a disused chalk quarry nature reserve which is a 15 minute walk from the town centre. In the afternoon we will visit the geology displays in Saffron Walden Museum (entry charge). Refreshments will be available at the leader’s home in the town centre (please bring a packed lunch). Meet at Saffron Walden Museum, Museum Street, CB10 1JL at 10:30 am. [Leader: Gerald Lucy].
July 6 (Saturday) Bulls Lodge Quarry, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex. NOTE: NEW MEETING PLACE
Our annual visit to this working quarry. Thick till (boulder clay), deposited by an ice sheet, contains derived fossils and erratics. The underlying Kesgrave Thames river gravels contain boulders from as far as North Wales and S.W. England, and Hertfordshire Puddingstone.
Meet 9:30am in the access road off General's Lane at grid ref: TL 7423 1009
Helmet, boots and high visibility jacket essential. (Working quarry - no under-18s permitted).
[Leader: Dr. Peter Allen].
August 17 (Saturday) Highwood Quarry, Easton Park Estate, Great Dunmow, Essex
Another visit to this fairly new sand and gravel quarry. Chalky till (boulder clay), deposited by an ice sheet, contains derived fossils and erratics. The underlying Kesgrave Thames river gravels contain boulders from as far as North Wales and S.W. England, and Hertfordshire Puddingstone. In the floor of the quarry is London Clay which contains occasional fossils. Meet 9:00am at the quarry access road (SRC aggregates) on the B1256 at the A120 turn off between Takeley and Dunmow (TL 601218) CM6 1SL (nearest post code). Helmet, boots and high visibility jacket essential. (Working quarry - no under-18s permitted). [Leader: Dr. Peter Allen].
Sept. 24 (Tuesday) Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. An afternoon visit to the
Sedgwick Museum to see the Watson collection, a magnificent display of building stones in mahogany cases that is not normally open to the public. We will also be able to see other displays in this museum which is one of the finest geological museums in the country. This will be followed by a walk around the city centre to look at building stones. Meet at 2:00pm in the entrance foyer of Sedgwick Museum, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ (those travelling by car are recommended to use Cambridge Park and Ride). Entry to the museum free. [Leader: Gerald Lucy].
October 5 (Saturday) - note change of day - Thorndon Country Park, Brentwood, Essex. A visit to the gravel cliff that was created by members in 2011, revealing 450,000 year-old glacial outwash. We will be finding out what more it can tell us about Brentwood’s prehistoric past. Meet at 2:00pm in the Thorndon North Countryside Centre car park (parking charge), Thorndon Park North, The Avenue, Brentwood, Essex, CM13 3RZ (TQ 607914). [Leaders: Ian and Ros Mercer].
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