Lyme Regis and Environs,
12-15 December 2005

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Ammonites in the rocks at Chippel Bay, Lyme Regis.


Blue Lias cliffs, Lower Jurassic, Chippel Bay, Lyme Regis.


Ammonite pavement at Chippel Bay, Lyme Regis.


Looking East from Chippel Bay towards Lyme Regis.


A likely story...


The sea front, Lyme Regis.


The sea front, Lyme Regis.


Blue Lias at Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis. Texture of defrosting Vienetta.


A mud slide at the Black Ven, east of Lyme Regis...


...into which I fell.


Looking East from Lyme Regis towards the Black Ven, Charmouth and the Golden Cap.


Ammonite in a block of soft oil-shale, Chippel Bay, Lyme Regis. 200 million years and the next tide will destroy it.


Jericho, Lyme Regis.


The grave of the 19th Century fossil-hunter Mary Anning, St. Michael's churchyard, Lyme Regis.


Looking towards Lyme Regis from the East. The structure in the middle of the picture conceals a sewage-treatment works.

(l-r): fossil bivalve, piece of iron pyrite, ammonite fragments and a "rotten flint" (fossil sponge). Lower Jurassic, Chippel Bay, Lyme Regis.


Ammonite fragment with transparent calcite crystals. Lower Jurassic, Black Ven, Lyme Regis.


More ammonites from the Black Ven, Lyme Regis.


Belemnite fragments from the Black Ven, Lyme Regis.


Groynes at Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis.


Rectors of Burton Bradstock, Church of St. Mary the Virgin.


The organ, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Burton Bradstock. Gavin Young of Weymouth as Liberace.


Monkey, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Burton Bradstock.


Gargoyles, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Burton Bradstock.


The abbey, Abbotsbury.


The abbey, Abbotsbury.


A view up the chimney, the abbey, Abbotsbury.


Masonry from the abbey incorporated into nearby walls, Abbotsbury.

Hardy's Monument, Black Down, Portesham. As in Nelson not Thomas.

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