Fossil Hunting At Lyme Regis Beach In Dorset - Jurassic Coast, UK

[@combatwombat71]

I live about 1hr 20min drive from Lyme Regis and Charmouth, and these videos always serve to get me excited and eager to get back out there! Hopefully in a week or so after some of the bigger tides.

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Great stuff it’s such fun at low tide doing the fossil hunting 🙌

[@Doxymeister]

Wow, that baby ammonite block is just awesome! Good imagination, figuring out how to get that block off the beach. My Dad once bought the hard plastic back-shell off of a fighter jet's seat, at a military surplus store, brought it home and made a sled out of it for us kids so that we could sled when it snowed--a rather rare event where I grew up. We then also used it to move the 50 lb. sacks of horse and chicken feed--that thing was nearly indestructible. LOL, sorry to babble on--I just thought it was neat how Mike scavenged and made it work. Thank you also for listing the items you take along when fossil hunting, that'll help those who are thinking of looking for fossils. Thank you!

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks that is great improvisation by your dad . It’s good those weights were transported more easily using that method . Those feed bags are ever so heavy to move easily . Mike has saved some astonishing fossils from the destruction of the sea 🌊

[@VooV830]

Absolutely beautiful...💯

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thank you kindly, those rare ammonites are stunning 🤩

[@karstengenzel7839]

Brilliant to see this Epophioceras block! Great find!

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Those Ammonites are so beautiful Karsten . It reminds me of the days when Vic was collecting them and you were about . Then you found the really big Woodstone. 🪨💫🙌

[@davidthomas6859]

Great to see you out Brandon ,more good information and finds .👍

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks very much. It’s always fun getting some time out there fossil collecting at low tide

[@CityRockhounding]

Oh man, you find some incredible piece, this video was excellent. I really appreciate your work!

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks very much for your comments and all your encouragement. 💫🌊🪨

[@CityRockhounding]

@@LymeRegisFossils hey it's my pleasure, I wish I could find some fossils like you, but I do ok with what I find in Michigan. You encourage me to keep doing what I'm doing. In a world of negativity you bring a positive outlook.

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Great stuff , fossil collecting gives you focus to find something and save it - such a great challenge

[@Terrorshooter46]

I was there looking for ages but most of the ammonites and things I found just broke in my hands

[@LymeRegisFossils]

A lot of my best finds are made in the Winter months. That’s when the storms wash out the mudslides onto the beaches and fossil finds get weathered out, into the shingle at low tide . The sea does the work for you washing the fossils onto the beaches some of which are preserved in Iron pyrite - some of the harder fossils from the soft shale material . Beware of the dangerous cliffs that are liable to fall suddenly and without warning. My KZbin video “ Ammonite Lyme Regis,” shows you how to find fossils at low tide in the scoured out patches on the beach, where patches of iron pyrite exist.

[@georginahiggins2255]

Great video to watch just before bed time 🙌😁

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks 🙏 for that, see you back along the Jurassic Coast- fossil collecting.

[@georginahiggins2255]

@@LymeRegisFossils can't wait 😊

[@wojciechtreffler2204]

Hi. The first amonite is perfect & beauty 😍. Such a marvel in the collection is a treasure. Super adventure. I could use a small pram with big wheels and still on "springs" 😂 . I look forward to a nice video of the workshop as you prepare today's find.. ... Greetings from PL 👋

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks 🙏 we will show you the find , one day when it’s being prepared for all to see! I’ve seen fossils transported on many different items . Greetings from the Jurassic Coast

[@wojciechtreffler2204]

@@LymeRegisFossils Thx. Have a good day 👋

[@LymeRegisFossils]

All the best, have a good day 🙏💫

[@WatchFlares]

Awesome (as always) Brandon ;)

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks very much Phil , cheers for all your encouragement

[@Everythingdinosaurdotcom]

Epophioceras block - great find I presume the discovery was made over towards Black Ven? Wonderful video - keep up the good work.

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Yes Mike that’s 100 percent correct

[@Comfortinscents]

Wonderful finds and so good to see makeshift aids creatively used to help move these promising huge bulks to be preserved🎉😍🌊🌊🌊

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks 🙏 that’s a great save by Mike that fossil bed . I was looking at Mike’s fossils and mine in the Lyme Regis Museum the other day ! They are saved from the destruction of the sea 🌊, you should see Mike’s big skull - amazing .

[@Comfortinscents]

@@LymeRegisFossils I'll pop in again next visit to have a longer look rather than being whizzed around by youngest 😍🌊🌊

[@LymeRegisFossils]

See you in the summer and Catch up with you . 🙏

[@mrunique4871]

Nice 👊

[@ForgottenFossils]

some local might recognise the bin and want the lid back 😄

[@LymeRegisFossils]

I wonder 💭 if it came off a ship 🚢, we keep finding stuff from cruise ships 😁

[@michaeljeffries3810]

I'm looking forward to see the epopheoceras nodule split open, I've never found one myself.

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks 🙏 very much Mike

[@Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh24]

I found a vertebrae of sorts down there!

[@lolobreak40]

4:20 OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LymeRegisFossils]

A beautiful naturally eroded ammonite cluster

[@lolobreak40]

It is a great luck to find one of those mortalities. Here what we find is Upper Jurassic Oxfordian, also Middle Ordovician and Miocene

[@lolobreak40]

Greetings from Spain

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thanks 🙏 greetings from the Jurassic Coast, U.K.

[@claudine1220]

does anyone else think stir fried prawns @4:22 then I wonder what an ammonite might actually taste like..(fresh not fossil lol)

[@iluv_katzz]

Wow

[@stevemarshall3481]

I don't live too far away from the jurassic coastline and have found a few fossils myself but never removed them as I thought it was illegal 🤔

[@LymeRegisFossils]

There is a fossil collecting code of conduct in force along the Jurassic Coast. You must obey the fossil code . People save the fossils from eroding away when they find them at low tide at Lyme Regis. Don’t dig in the cliffs in situ this is illegal, the cliffs are dangerous and liable to fall suddenly and without warning.

[@stevemarshall3481]

@@LymeRegisFossils I didn't even know there was a fossil code 😯, so as long as I don't dig then it's OK, I'll keep that in mind, cheers 👍

[@LymeRegisFossils]

You have to register key scientifically important fossil finds at Charmouth Heritage Centre . The big water worn ammonites are left for all to see on the beach. There is an ammonite pavement West of Lyme Regis that is a protected site . For more there is online “ The West Dorset Fossil Collecting Code of Conduct- Jurassic Coast.”

[@stevemarshall3481]

@@LymeRegisFossils cheers bud, I'll look into it properly before doing anything, only found little ones before, each time I've taken photos and left them on the beach, always thought it was illegal 👍

[@rebecacarnahan8186]

Hi Brandon, Some of the family will be traveling to Lyme Regis in June. How can they get in touch with you to schedule a fossil walk? Thank you. Love your videos by the way!

[@LymeRegisFossils]

Thank You, my link to my fossil walks is in the write ✍️ up about this video . Or www.lymeregisfossilwalks.com of your going to google it , cheers Brandon

[@BritishBeachcomber]

I'm adding a wheelie bin lid and ropes to my fossil hunting kit. But I don't think my back will like it.