Fossil shells known as Gryphaea are amongst the most familiar of Warwickshire fossils. They are commonly known as ‘Devils’ toenails’, due to their broadly curved shape, which looks a bit like ...
This remarkable fossil was collected during the nineteenth century from a former stone quarry at Wilmcote, near Stratford upon Avon. Many interesting and unusual fossils used to be found in ...
The Jurassic rocks of southern and eastern Warwickshire have yielded many fossils over the last two hundred years, including the skeletons of ichthyosaurs – dolphin-like ‘fish-lizards’ made famous by Mary ...
Parts of central and eastern Warwickshire are well-known amongst geologists and the quarry industry for patches of ancient sand and gravel, the half million year-old deposits of a long-lost river, ...
The background
In April 2017 Heritage & Culture Warwickshire worked with The Play House and pupils from Westgate Primary to create tales inspired by objects on display at the Market Hall Museum. Four classes from Westgate Primary ...
The background
In April 2017 Heritage & Culture Warwickshire worked with The Play House and pupils from Westgate Primary to create tales inspired by objects on display at the Market Hall Museum. Four classes from Westgate Primary ...
This beautiful specimen from Warwickshire Museum’s collection is part of a natural limestone nodule, collected about twenty years ago from the now-flooded ‘old quarry’ near Southam, formerly owned by Rugby ...
John Roberts has already told us about the intriguing occurrences of maritime/salt-loving plants in parts of our landlocked county. Interestingly, this same landscape preserves geological evidence (rocks and fossils) for ...
True dinosaurs – land-dwelling ruling reptiles of the Mesozoic Era – are quite widespread in Great Britain, and more are being discovered all the time. In Warwickshire, our widespread Jurassic ...
Much of southern and eastern Warwickshire is underlain by layers of grey clay and limestone dating back 200 million years to the dawn of the Jurassic Period. This material is ...
Look closely in your flower beds, local park or on your allotment and you’ll almost certainly find rounded pebbles of a smooth, fine-grained rock-type known as quartzite. They are actually ...
