DEWLISH   early 19^th century
A Pliocene sand-filled riverbed was discovered about 30 metres (100 feet) up the chalk hill above the village of Dewlish. Atempts to exploit the sand uncovered and immense sand-filled trench about 1.5 metres (5 feet) below the ground which contained fossilised willows and the skeletons of two elephants which would have stood over 5.1 metres (17 feet) high as they walked the Dorset landscape before the last Ice Age.

LYME REGIS  
The cliffs of Lyme Regis are famous for their fossils and the town for its famous fossil collector, Mary Anning, who found an ichthyosaurus at nearby Black Ven in her early teens. It is to Mary Anning that the children's nursery rhyme "She sells sea shells on the sea shore....." refers.

DORSET
  Oil Industry in Dorset
  The Last Ice Age in E. Dorset & W. Hants.

MAIDEN CASTLE   nr. Dorchester

Recommend a Book for this Page

Prehistoric Dorset - The Story of its Fossils
Robert Coram     © 1988 British Fossils