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Herne Bay

Beltinge / Bishopstone, Kent: Eocene shark teeth

Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Shark teethShark teeth
FossilsFossils

Also reported: fish remains, pyritised twigs.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: London Clay and Thanet Sand foreshore east of Herne Bay, a Victorian-era shark tooth locality still producing

Long-documented in UK fossil guides: shark and ray teeth from the low-tide clay scours at Beltinge toward Reculver

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Soft sticky clay at low tideIncoming tide floods the flats quickly, slumping cliffs

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