England
Cromer, Norfolk
Overstrand to Cromer, chalk fossils and erratics
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Fossils
Flint and stone toolsAlso reported: bored chalk clasts.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Glacial till cliffs with Late Cretaceous chalk rafts and far-travelled erratics; cliff falls feed the beach with flint and chalk fossils.
Deposits Magazine (Jan 2026) first-person account of years of collecting between Overstrand and Cromer: echinoids, belemnites, sponges in flint, Derbyshire screwstone erraticsView source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Landslide-prone cliffsBusy holiday beach near the pier
Keep exploring nearby
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