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Folkestone, Kent

Pyrite ammonites

Fossil site Documented siteLegal to collect
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

pyrite ammonites, Gault fossils

Documented rockhounding locality.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Remote or mine groundShafts, heat and weather
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