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YOUR experiences, reports and comments of Ramsholt |
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Graham Orford - 25 October 2009 |
My first visit to ramsholt as I only started to look for fossils a few months ago.
A very nice walk to the collecting area and found what I believe to be a lobster fossil and also eight sharks teeth one of which measures 43mm long all quite nicely polished, also found about ten pieces of sharks teeth that were almost polished away, all in all a very enjoyable morning.
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fossils at Ramsholt - 07/08/2007 |
The best help I can do is to give good directions. Get to Ramsholt (which does not seem to be on the map). There is a car park up a hill from a pub. Walk down to the pub, then at the bottom turn right and walk for about 30 mins. You will eventually have to go down onto the beach, then carry on walking for about 200m and you will get to the "rope swing" tree.
My finds today included many shells from the crag, many are broken and I do not find them inspiring. There were many varieties of shark teeth, and many ray plates. I found some bits of crab/lobster, but these are difficult to spot.
Take food and drink as it is too far to walk back to the pub for a snack. Also take some knee pads as most of the finds require you to kneel down and closely inspect. If you forget, use the bladder wrack seaweed, it should be good for the skin aswell, so the girls should be happy.
paul burgess
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July 2006 - Joe Shimmin |
The walk to the fossily area is through beautiful scenery and the whole of the country around this site is lovely.
I wasn't so enamoured by the fossils though. Maybe I'm spoiled by my proximity to Herne Bay, Sheppey etc, but the shark teeth and ray plates found at ramsholt are all partials and worn ones at that. There are some nice shells from the Red Crag, however, to make up for this and also the coral pieces to be found are pretty. I'm told that Megalodon teeth are occasionally found there as well.
I didn't find anything so exotic. The best I did was a small crab carapace that looked worn to me but another collector said was good for Ramsholt.
A nice location for variety - you may think that you've not found much, but if you pick up fossils from each different bed you should do pretty well. Ramsholt's not on the top of my list for re-visits, but it's not so bad. |
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