Fossil Hunting at Charmouth
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- čas přidán 16. 12. 2022
- Fossil hunting at Charmouth, Dorset - and this time, I'll be looking for a few specimens hopefully worth taking home.
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Another excellent video of Eva identifying rocks. She's taught me so much. To the point where I'm now taking groups out to the beach to bark at rocks. I have an official digger as well, who I do pay, to create any sand holes we require. I say pay, I mean I give him toast.
Thank you Eva.
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Eva slowly becoming the channel's main character. I would love to see Eva try scambaiting.
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Be nice if she shut up and didn't ruin the peace at such beautiful wild places.
Hey there. I've never commented before but Mike, I think what you should be most proud of is the comments similar to what I just read, which was something like " I was having a very rough time in my life and watching your videos made me feel so much better"
Well done Mike
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This is a wholesome place to be. For content and comments. I know it's a little twee, but I appreciate the wholesome.
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I must be a real life dog communicator, I understood Eva perfectly when she said "I found rocks". 😁
I really enjoy all of your videos. I am having a rough day today but this relaxing video is exactly what I needed. Please never stop doing what you are doing. I will continue watching every single video you produce.
Sorry you're having a bad day Anthony. Hope things improve for you. Hug sent ❤️👍❤️
I love Eva’s enthusiasm for fossil hunting 😅
First time viewer, beautiful area for a walk. All the added bonuses. Sea glass, fossils!
Thank you! Charmouth and Lyme Regis are my favourite beaches in the UK. I used to go to Lyme for day trips (born in East Devon, so only a 30 min drive) for over 25 years, before marriage. It was where my Dad felt most at ease, resting from a very taxing manual job. My brother used to walk from Lyme to Charmouth and bring back amonites, belmnites and iron pyrites for us to see. He had quite a collection, so of the amonites as large as a jam jar lid, which was quite special. Glad that Eva enjoyed herself - my dog was barking back at her during the first few minutes, then just watched her digging. Loved this. Sending greetings from Dunedin, NZ
Ava and her love of rocks never ceases to be a never ending source of happiness for me
fossil collection has always fascinated me and been one of my favourite hobbies since a child. the jurassic coast in south england has so many gems quite literally. happy hunting!
Eva must be thrilled that you and Jenny have decided to take up her hobby of stone-gathering.
1:19 "Just go...and...frolic" had me laughing. Thank you for that :)
I think Eva was an Archaeologist in her previous life!
I don't watch these kinds of videos as often as I should. As someone who's been going through a lot lately and who also wants to get into rocks and gemstones, this is a relaxing and informative video. Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing your beach fossil hunting walks
Whether or not you discover numerous items yo take home, I thoroughly enjoy walking with you.
Eva is such an oddly endearing little canine. Her rock obsession makes me laugh.
I've only been to the ocean shore once in my life & then for less than an hour. So I do enjoy your walks along the shore.
Thank you for the relaxing film. We love the beaches around Charmouth. We've only been in the summer when it's busy but if you walk far enough, you can still find some peace and lose yourself in the search for Jurassic treasure.
Eva started out so full of energy, "Lookit, lookit, what did I find, boss!?"
This is awesome. I have been here many times and it is truly one of the most enjoyable things to do when down that way. Thanks for posting.
Always love a good fossil hunting session. There is always a sense of adventure and discovery when you venture out there.
I love these outings. Very relaxing to watch, especially after a bout of watching the news. lols
Thank you!🥰
your videos are so comfy to watch, i always love seeing new uploads
Perfect winter stroll along one of my favourite beaches, thank you so much! Hubby found a lovely ichthyosaur vertebra last time we went. Still proudly on display at home and one of the only fossils we found that hasn't crumbled over time (pyrite decay!).
You can treat your fossils with various things to protect them and stop them crumbling it's used in professional fossil prep but you can just buy some and apply it you don't need to be prepping the fossil properly to use it.
A bit of important safety information, during the winter months the local water companies dump untreated sewage into the river and in turn the sea around there, their website will tell you if/where the sewage dumps have been in the past few weeks.
Love the eye and cheek on the sandpaper at 32:39
I used to go to this beach all the time as kid on summer holidays, and spent most of my time there hunting for fossils, and eventually amassed quite a few over the years 😁 thank you for posting this, so many good memories coming back to me of holidays in this area.
Love the fossil hunting and mudlarking vids Mr Shrimp, Keep ‘‘em coming please!
I absolutely love this part of the world! I’ve found some great stuff here. I’m looking forward to seeing what you find! I like to out some of my smaller finds and pyrite ones in resin keyrings
Thanks for another lovely video, I find your channel relaxing and good company when I'm feeling low.
8:05 I'mpretty sure you're looking at a partial boot print😄 Great video, loved Eva and the dinosaur duvet cover shirt😉
Beautiful scenery there, always loved fossils, very good, love your content Atomic Shrimp 💜💜
Thanks for the relaxing outing. My better half isn't up to it IRL (waiting for knee surgery) and I won't go without her, so vicariously we're having a great time.
Lovely video, thanks. Happy Holidays
oh how exciting another fossil hunting video i love watching these adventures there also very relaxing i look forward to these ones i love evas energy
Thank you for another fossile hunting video! You're channel really has become part of our weekend routine. Also love the dino shirt! 😊
this was so interesting and fun to watch!!! and that beach looks gorgeous, makes me wanna go out and just look at all the rocks
Looking forward to this video! Love your vids, A.S.
Enjoying your adventures in fossil hunting. My friends frequently refer to me as "The Fossil". Cheers from California! Great channel content. Fun and educational. A twofer! Thanks
Reminds me of many terrible holidays from my youth. Camping at Charmouth, never finding any fossils, the walk to Lyme Regis, and the bus back. One year we camped in a storm. It sucked.
Did a week camping in Charmouth as a young kid. so must have been either 71 or 73. Did the walk from charmouth to Lyme Regis, and even walked back along the road. That was almost too much though. Luckily did find a few annonomite fossils, so that was good. Seeing the mouth of the river in the video really brought back memories. So very like it was, even though it's fifty or so years later.
That was really nice, I've been enjoying these fossil hunting beach trips. Slightly disappointed we didn't get to see the attempt at burning some of the oil bearing shale you mentioned at 5:33.
I forgot to take it home! Another time...
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I came here with my husband and family the last time I came to the UK (3 years ago). My husband loves all things dinosaurs and fossils. We didn't find much but my dad was killing it and found some small ammonites. I recommend just visiting the area - it is so beautiful especially when the weather is sunny.
Interesting, educational, creative, inspiring, in one word Fantastic!! Thank you so much 😊
Thanks for an interesting and relaxing video.
On the beach W of Charmouth - lifting the rocks (1-2 person job) often identified interesting fossils underneath. Thank you for the day trip!
Love the glimpse of your very appropriate shirt !! :) would you ever want to do an explanation video about how fossils are formed, why and where?
Thanks for taking us with you!
I love your videos. I'm commenting because i also know that it helps the algorithm. :)
Thanks for sharing another adventure of yours, sir Shrimp!🧭🦐🎩
There is an interesting ammonite pavement to the right of the Cobb at Lyme Regis. Lots of huge ammonites there and well worth popping over to.
That shot of the beach at 12:25, made me think of the desolate beach visited at almost the end of time, by the unnamed narrator in H.G. Wells' 'The Time Machine'.
I do like a bit of 'bleak and desolate', myself.
Lovely, chilled out video as always, Mike. Thank you.
We used to have a gentleman who would nature walks on the educational channel. Any plants or animals he saw during the walks he would tell you about them. I watched him for years. I don't get that channel any more but he stopped doing the show years ago. I like your videos even better because you do them in England so it's all new to me. So many interesting things to see there! I hope you can continue to do these videos for a long time.
I hope you have a very happy Christmas!
Thank you Shrimp! You clear my mind 🙂
Really fascinating. Thank you.
Do you already have a collection of fossils and if so any chance of seeing them in a future video maybe?
What a lovely walk, I enjoyed that, thank you 🐚
Some of these rocks are almost perfectly round, I would love to take one of those home just as decoration. Something about these unusual smooth rocks is really cool.
I was very lucky when I visited CHarmouth and Lyme Regis for three days this October. Due to storm Babet, there were some really nice new landslides from the cliffs. I found more than 700 belemnites in two days of Charmouth, nearly 200 ammonites on the three days combined and a couple of crinoids aswell. I enjoyed my time there and hope to return some time!
14:17 when you picked up the belemnite right hand of the screen looks like part of ammonite exposed in the rock would make a lovely prepping job
Nice to see better luck this time
i love these. so relaxing.
Good eyes,Jenny! So good to see you and the Mister finding neat things.
I’m glad you were able to dissect the rocks in this video because I was super curious! I went fossil hunting with my girlfriend once early in our relationship, we went early to Lyme Regis and spent all day searching the beach and local quarries as I was getting desperate and conceded defeat towards the end of the day with nothing but interesting pebble formations. We made our way back along the beach towards our car when low and behold, I caught a glimpse of a lone segmented rock in the sand that had been exposed by receding water! It was similar to what Jenny found in this video but I was elated and considered it a win for the day! Glad I got to go home with something!
I grew up in E Devon I loved these beaches for fossil hunting & fishing, so good to see them again 😊 thank you
Atomic Shrimp, the place I go when I feel limp. (tried to rhyme) Your videos always put me in a better mood!
Lovely video thank you, so relaxing
A classic use for seaglass is a seaglass necklace, but it could be made into a more pedant-like object instead of just a necklace, could be a nice project :)
Yes they would be lovely done with copper wire.
I still think the fool's gold is pretty cool, especially when it takes on interesting crystal formations. Bismuth is the coolest metal crystal of all in my opinion, but pyrite is still cool.
The coastline looks wildly similar to a coastline in oregon (near newport) that ive been to that also has many fossils! no amonites but many large scallops and snail shells (and a lot of concretions that stick part way out of the hillside) so neat to see how the landscapes mirror eachother and how they both have fossils!
You could build a treasure chest full of sea glass jewels.
Right as you said you might miss some things at 10:33 you missed something, bottom of the screen off to the left a bit is a concave shaped rock which from my experience is either the underside of a large gryphea, a piece of a negative from a very large ammonite or a bivalve, however whenever I find any of those options like how the one in the video is it’s almost always badly eroded, broken or just poor quality so not the end of the world 👍
Thanks! There's always so much I miss in these videos. (in the one at Compton Bay IOW, I walked right over the top of a dino footprint, whilst talking about how I was looking for dino footprints) I think it's probably just because the camera isn't necessarily pointing where my eyes are pointing
Very interesting! Loving the dinosaur shirt coastal shrimp 😁
I love these walkabouts. Although I live close to the areas I can't actually get there due to work etc. But, are you ever going to attempt a livestream fossil and mudlark hunt?
Ahh an early Christmas present. Lovely!
I think some of your sea glass nuggets would make a great decorative addition to a succulent plant along with some pebbles having some colourful glass or even clear nuggets would be a great addition. I've used bits of rougher jade in the past but some sea glass would look really interesting as a bit of an addition.
What a great idea.
The best iron pyrite fossils to be found are between charmouth and lyme regis,we've found some stunning examples over the years.such a beautiful part of England to be in,also between golden cap and seatown is good to,there's a pub in seatown which is very welcoming after such a long walk.
I love the fossil hunting. I’d love to find one someday. I live on a volcanic island we have lots of interesting geological but fossils are not too common here. I always look forward to your videos
I remember when I was a child, and I used to go fossil hunting when visiting my grandparents down in Gosport. I found a sand shark tooth on the beach at Lee-on-Solent. Absolutely wonderful memory.
I was that exact section of beach in the summer. My wife picked up a rock just because it was heart shaped. To her delight, there was a perfect ammonite on the reverse. I found loads of bellomites. Few ammonites too but very small.
The dogs commentary was appreciated from me
I found a perfect condition trigona bivalve at kimmeridge a while back
I love the occasional Eva footprints where you're searching! Evidence of life..
Very nice ! Thanks for sharing ! Who doesn't love sea glass. Alot of it here on Oregon beaches.....
The dog has the makings of a good paleontologist.
Have you been to Compton Bay and Brook on the Isle of Wight? There's always quite a few dinosaur footprints on the top of the flat rock at low tide and huge 3 toed foot casts of iguanadon footprints just lying around on the beach. It's pretty impressive if you Google search it you can see them and also they have a few on display along with some interesting island finds at the dinosaur museum near Sandown. A fascinating guy to visit and speak to is jurassic Jim he's got a shop on the island selling rocks and fossils but he's a really nice guy and he's well worth visiting, he's very knowledgeable about fossils and geology.
Spent my child hood summers in Charmouth, I'm from Dorchester but most of my family live in and around Bridport. Such a lovely beech in the summer. Should check at the George at West Bay of you get a chance for a nice meal out. And the torchlight procession from Bridport to West Bay, normally late August
Hello,
As a avid viewer for some time now, I am loving these fossil hunting videos - perhaps heightened by the fact that In work I've been lending a hand to the education team, one area of which is regarding geodes and fossils etc. and these videos have helped my own knowledge which in turn I can pass on to visitors/children (I work at a rather small zoo) Our own collection of fossils is unfortunately rather small - I was wondering if the next time you went out and found anything that perhaps you do not wish to add to your own collection, but is still rather interesting, you would consider donating some, I also think it could be very interesting to the children and visitors alike to see the process of finding the fossils that they're looking at in the cabinet. My idea would be to add a QR-Code linking to the video of you finding them (Should you choose to make a new video) allowing them to do so. I'm in your discord if you're interested in discussing this.
Everytime you upload a video i’m so happy! 🥰
Eva melts your heart, love her.
Eva experiencing pure sensory overload from the sheer amount of rocks everywhere
I absolutely love all the fossil content lately!
I was in my local supermarket today and seeing all the vegetables going for 19p in the yearly Christmas supermarket wars made me think about your budget challenges:
Have you thought of doing a Christmas budget challenge using the 19p veggies or something similar during the festive period?
Love the Dino shirt Mike! Perfect for fossil hunting!
The pinkinsh-red hard stone that you thought was "flintish type material" was gypsum. It comes from the cliffs at Weston to Branscombe where there are layers of gypsum in the cliff-face.
great finds enjoyed the video
At about 9:30 there is a significant sluffing of lose material from the cliff in the background showing quite dark material. Might that be magnetite (oxidized pyrite)? With that much pyrite and water, I would put a bet on it. Might even be some gold as it often collects on pyrite crystals when the latter fall out of the magmatic solution. They say "gold rides the iron horse' out here. But not always.
If it were me, I'd try dragging a magnet and seeing what comes up. If there is significant oxidization of the pyrite you might magna-fish some fossils. That is also heavier than the sands, so there are probably much better fossils under the rocks and light colored sand.
Whenever you find egg shaped rocks (and there were quite a few ostrich sized ones along the way) turn them over with your foot, because you never know when crab feet might poke out of them. It's fun digging them out and even if you're not versed in the trade, you can still make a decent attempt at it with some b-72 glue and a cheap air scribe.
Also, that giant ammonite you saw towards the end of the visit,... would be worth having a stab at with a portable hammer drill because it's complete on the other side. Some vinegar can make good gains into the rock before you have to do other work to it.
Extremely interesting. My other half particularly appreciated the reference to H R Giger as they are a fan of his work.
I use sea glass as a topping on pot plants, sometimes in combination with round pebbles.
If you walk in the other direction towards Stonebarrow, you need to go during low tide because of the mud, the rockpools yield lots of great quality crinoid stems (Pentacrinites). There's a great pub at Stonebarrow too. There are many ammonites in the chalk cliffs at Stonebarrow but are very fragile. With your iron pyrites, I recommend sealing them with clear nail varnish. It's not very stable and it will decompose and oxidize and turn to dust over time.
HR Giger drawing flowers, got a chuckle.