Geology and Fossils
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Geological Gallery
 
Ammonite Antler Flint Nodule

Achulean Hand Axe

Lower Pleistocene

c. 300,000 Bp.

Reculver

Ammonite fossil cut and polished to show internal structure

Antler base showing working to remove usable sections

Mystery Object1

A flint nodule with an interesting pattern on the surface that the finder thought may be a fossilised Archaeopteryx. It is actually a natural formation

Ridged Flint Blind Trilobite Chert Nodule Solitary Coral

Mystery Object 2

Ridged Flint

Many of these flint nodules are found with varying degrees of ribbed structure

Blind Trilobite

Ptchagnostus akanthodes

Cambrian c. 500 Ma.

Mystery Object 3

A Chert nodule from the limestone of the Valley of The Kings, Egypt. A bizarre natural shape with no obvious explanation

Solitary Coral

Upper Cretaceous

c.85 Ma.

Flint Knife Bone Spear Ammonite Fragment Wolf Jaw

Flint Knife

Late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age

The Archaeological Society of Stone House School, Broadstairs

Bone Spear Point with carved barbs.

 

Giant ammonite fragment showing suture lines.

Parapuzosia leptophylla

Upper Cretaceous

c.85 Ma.

Wolf Lower Jaw

Canis lupus

Little Cliffsend Farm, Thanet

c. 1300 AD

 
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