Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
Summer may be over, but there’s still plenty of opportunity to get out fossiling. This autumn I’m leading a variety of events, both in York and on the Yorkshire Coast: Whitby small-group fossil tourThursday October 3rd, 9.15–11.15am – East Scar, WhitbyBook on Eventbrite (max. 7 tickets available) Prehistoric tour of YorkSunday Oct 6th, 11am & 2pm – Start at Yorkshire...
I’m part of the campaign to save Severus Hill, an Ice Age landmark in York, which may also have been the place where Emperor Septimius Severus was cremated, after he died in Eboracum in AD 211. The hill is definitely a four-acre former reservoir site that nature has rewilded, and is definitely a place that Yorkshire Water wants to sell....
Leading a family fossil hunt at Whitby, I walked my group onto East Scar, beneath Whitby Abbey. The rocks in the foreshore and lower part of the cliffs here are Early Jurassic marine shales. The dark grey layers, peppered with hard, pale lumps, belong to the Whitby Mudstone Formation. The hard pale lumps are limestone nodules (concretions) that grew around...
