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South Holland
Maasvlakte 2 beach, Hoekse Slag
Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Fossils
Flint and stone toolsAlso reported: woolly rhino, cave bear, wild horse, steppe bison, hyena coprolites.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Late Pleistocene
Port of Rotterdam says sand pumped from the North Sea bed for Maasvlakte 2 delivers mammoth teeth, vertebrae and other Ice Age remains to the beach.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
strong currents, no facilities, wind
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