As it was low tide and we were passing - it would have been impolite not to! Not many fossils, but the mud was lovely and dry for a change - a nice walk out in the sunshine. The most exciting thing was to see the timbers of what, in the nineteenth century, was once a coprolite mine. Fossilised dinasaur faeces were extracted, crushed and treated with sulphuric acid, for their phosphates and used as manure. There were small tramways used to transport the copralites to the station at Speeton where upon it was taked to Hull for processing. Not all of the nodules extracted would have been coprolites but many would have been.
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| Copralite mine timbers. |
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| A decent belamnite .... photo at the bottom... |
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| Belamnite pieces. |
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| Shell. |
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| The belamnite .. |
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| Speeton mud/clay. |
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