Is it legal to collect at Pett Level, East Sussex: Cliff End to Fairlight bone bed?

Restricted. Hastings Cliffs SSSI and the Rother collecting code: a few loose specimens only, no tools, no digging cliffs, slips or fixed ledges; report important finds

What can you find at Pett Level, East Sussex: Cliff End to Fairlight bone bed?

fish teeth and scales, crocodile scutes, dinosaur bone fragments, horsetail stems, footprint casts (leave in place)

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Pett Level, East Sussex

Cliff End to Fairlight bone bed

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Shark teeth

Fossils

Also reported: crocodile scutes, horsetail stems, footprint casts (leave in place).

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

Why this spot

Wealden (Early Cretaceous) Cliff End Bone Bed and submerged forest; cliff falls release fish, reptile and dinosaur material.

UK Fossils Fairlight page: shore from Pett Level and Cliff End toward Fairlight Cove yields hybodont teeth, ganoid scales, crocodile scutes, rolled dinosaur bone and horsetails from bone-bed blocksView source →