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East Mersea hippo site, Cudmore Grove

Fossil site, tidal Documented siteLegal to collect
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

FossilsFossils
Shark teethShark teeth

Also reported: beaver, wolf, bear, macaque.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Why this spot

Pleistocene (Ipswichian interglacial)

UK Fossils describes the East Mersea hippo site with hippopotamus bones from the roughly 120,000 year old Ipswichian interglacial.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

soft mud, tides

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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Wivenhoe shipyard waterfront on the Colne8 km away · Tidal foreshore
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