Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
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...
Fall into fossils this autumn, with my busy programme of activities! Saturday 7th October, York York Unlocked at the YPS Lodge, York Museum Gardens, 10-12pm and 2-4pm. As part of the York Unlocked weekend, we’ll be opening up the lodge to visitors, and showing off some Yorkshire fossils. It’s free, and everyone is welcome. You are also welcome to bring...
Banish the grey fear with a prehistoric pedicure! This summer, at Kirkleatham Museum, the Lemon Tops & Lobster Pots exhibition is celebrating the Redcar & Cleveland seaside. I’ve curated the geology display, and I’ve made Gryphaea arcuata – the devil’s toenail – star of the show. The fossils are always grey, though, so on Wednesday August 9th and 23rd I’m...
