Larking on the Beach at Lyme Regis - (Revised Version) Dinosaurs, Fossils & Fascinating History

In May of 2021 I went to meet up with the ‪@SouthCoastMudlarks‬ to search the beaches at Lyme Regis. Lyme Regis is place in rich in history and not only is it a perfect place to search for fossils, but also, as there is an early 20th century dump eroding out onto the beach, there is the chance finding some other little historical treasures too.
This video is the revised version so you may have already seen it. If you do search the beaches of Lyme Regis it is very important not to venture up on the mud slopes. It is dangerous and also makes the slopes very unstable. It is not necessary to climb up the slopes. There is plenty to be found on the beaches.
Thank you for watching.
Follow me on twitter and instagram @tidelineart for more finds and history.
See you soon.
Nicola
Nicola White
www.tidelineart.com

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Please note that if you go to Lyme Regis to search the beaches for fossils, it is important NOT to venture up onto the mud slopes. It is dangerous and destabilises the slopes. There is plenty to be found on the beach itself. Some of you will have seen this video. This is the revised and edited version which I am now reposting. Thank you for watching. Nicola

[@kim79710]

Have a wonderful day Nicola, love your videos

[@roxannechristensen9532]

Nicola, you are such a great lady and all your fans appreciate and love you, thanks for the revision

[@Jinxs-Journey]

Awesome you did an edit, brilliant Thankyou

[@j.d.9648]

Thank you for the journey Nicola. New subscriber and very fascinated with "mudlarking". If you wouldn't mind, would you please give a little background on the melted bottles that were found. I'm curious about them. Thank you again!

[@dudley8671]

❤❤ Dudley

[@Tonyblack261]

If I remember my high school geology, the fossils you found could indeed be metallic. When the ammonite died and was covered with compressed mud or sand, it rots away leaving a void. That void can get filled with metallic or mineral deposits and the fossil is formed. The deposit can be iron pyrites, also known as "fools gold".

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

When I visited Nova Scotia, I went fossil hunting at Joggins along the Bay of Fundy. There was someone there to tell us that we could keep anything we found on the ground, but that we could not touch the cliff, in order to prevent erosion. And to keep collectors from stripping the place overnight. No one was there to tell you, so you didn't know better. Now you do, and everyone's happy.

[@dr_steve]

As Bon Jovi and Angelo would say, "Quite simply put, Nic, you ROCK!!!"

[@mikedo6]

Those pyritized ammonites are gorgeous! Nature's gilding!!

[@amandapittar9398]

I’m number 971, not bad for other side of the world… I have chronic pain so Nicola you are my friend when I can’t sleep. It’s winter here. Pouring with rain and a “freezing” 10C . Lyme Regis - wasn’t that the set for the French Lieutenants Woman? So wrenchingly romantic. I loved this video, brought back lots of happy memories. Thank you. 🌝🐚🪨🐚🌝

[@Pluggit1953]

Who can forget Meryl in her hooded cape?

[@SouthCoastMudlarks]

Thanks for joining us for the day Nicola, we had an absolutely lovely day. We will definitely have to do it again. Loved the video!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you for inviting me! ❤️

[@krisbrand354]

It's almost like meditation watching these. Not sure why exactly but they're so peaceful to watch. Thanks Nicola!

[@dougalexander7204]

I’m so glad you revised the video and reposted it. Further… “let’s put our expectations aside and see what we can find”. And, that is why we love you.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you 💓

[@Richardincancale]

3:07 Gas light tap!

[@glennaw1547]

What a beautiful day along the coast. I love the fossils best.

[@minnierose4398]

What a beautiful little anchor of hope, incredible fossils and gorgeous coastline. Nice company too. Thanks dear Nicola 💕

[@ashbell6712]

Revised or not your vids are always enjoyed. Thankyou nicola. You have no idea what comfort and distraction you've brought for me this yr particularly. I watch your vids with my dad now, just like i did with my mam - the faces and routines may change in my life but you and your vids don't and that brings a foundation of comfort to hang tight to. So its thankyou from the very heart of me my friend x

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you dear Ash. Lots of love xx

[@debbierossi1320]

FYI I enjoy your nature videos with music as much as I do the mud larking! Kudos from Kentucky USA!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you 💗

[@betadoctor]

19:37 Agreed this is Dutch 'Delfts Blauw' pottery. Awesome adventure this. Greeting from The Netherlands.

[@simonedavidson6378]

Thank you Nicola… just amazing as always

[@lorrainerichardson3280]

I'm so pleased that you re-edited and put this clip up again as I really enjoyed the first edition and thought when you pulled it off it would have been such a waste. So pleased, thanks, Nicola. =-)

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you Lorraine ❤️😘

[@BriarRouge]

This beach is now my dream vacation spot.

[@nmo888]

Pre 1960’s the dust/rubbish carts used to go round Lyme Regis and surrounding area,and when full just open dumped their load onto landfill above the cliff. If you look from the car park,you can see the garden allotments. The dump was in between there and the cliff.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you

[@joyceclark8476]

Hi Doug, Jackie and Nicola, cool finds, nice when folks can get together and enjoy what they like to do. Thanks Nicola. Joy. ❤️🇺🇸

[@ShortOrderCook]

What a lot of lovely finds - the fossils especially are beautiful, they look perfect. The melted bottle is fantastic! Thankyou for taking us to Lyme Regis with you!

[@Carolbearce]

So much fun to see other mud lurkers get together. I love the fossils you found and the gift of the coasters are beautiful.

[@tuttib7500]

Love that old dessert fork! There is also a movie out called "Ammonite" that is somewhat about Mary Anning.

[@clonejones7955]

There's also a short film on KZbin here maybe on Omeleto channel about Mary Anning.Well acted and great cinematography.

[@jennywalborn7769]

Glad you brought it back(revised), was a cool adventure with nice folks! Love the fossils!!

[@roxymanasquan9087]

So happy you were able to revise & re-post! Sending you lots of Love & Hugs from Texas XXXOOO

[@pattyfarghaly1821]

Wow loving this and I love how you give us the history.

[@rockreader4298]

Your vids never fail to be Enjoyable, my Friend. Perfectly melted bottle for Anna. I do like her and that whole quirky, fun group of dump digging, treasure hunting, Larkers that I've seen with you and Si. Hoping to see more of them soon. You found some beautiful treasures, Nic. Really liked the anchors and utensils a lot. Your little funny at the end (made me giggle). I once found an eight inch wide Ammonite, here in Nor Cali US. It was perfect. I've found fossilized fruit and nuts, as well as a variety of petrified nuts and seeds along our river banks. It's always exciting. I like that you said "Let's let go of our expectations and see what we can find". I will cherish it because you said it and always keep that in mind while larking or hunting any sort of treasure. : ) Make sure to show us what delightful Art you make of your finds. (~v~)

[@Ontario_Rockhound]

Awesome fossils! The metallic look of some of the fossils is due to them being pyritized.

[@outdoorsy01]

Lyme Regis is an amazing place. Glad you enjoyed it. Lovely content

[@bonnerdebbie]

Thanks Nicola, I often watch your videos again and enjoy them all.

[@tomdehaven3445]

You're great at interviewing! Love the videos! And interesting finds!

[@lovelyskull3483]

Thank you Nicola.

[@shawnablake5102]

Yay, so happy you posted an edited version. Love your videos. Thank you for sharing your country with us as well as all of your finds.

[@johnhagemeyer8578]

Good,good, good! I'm happy you re- released this. I like your production on this video. Mary was ahead of her times.She dominated in a field that's mostly a boys club. Boys that dig in the dirt club.

[@johnwoodcock3208]

Awesome adventure with the lovely Nicola!!!👍

[@tracyriordan7011]

I read all about Mary Anning and her amazing fossil funds, while dinosaurs, in a story by one of my favorite authors. It is called Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier! I knew this was the place she found the dinosaurs! Or I thought it was, I should say! It has been over 10 years since I read her story! I wish I would've been there! What amazing moments she must have had finding huge dinosaur bones! Sooo enamored and proud of all she accomplished in the field of archaeology! ( : Those ammonites are amazing aren't they?! ( : Soooo sweet! ( : This edited version came out amazing! ( : What a pain to have to do it, though, In the first place! ) : Great job as always! ( :

[@superbellabeau]

Love the original and the reposting of your fun mudlarking day out Nicola. Such great fossil finds and luckily there was a pipe as well! 😊♥️

[@claycountybrian5645]

Greetings from Clay County, Missouri ! YAY ! 2 videos in one week !! IDC if it IS a re-run I'm watching it again !!! TA for taking me along ! ATB !! & HH !!! 8 thumbs UP !!! ZERO yj i non c \m/ PEACE

[@kyrathomas-moore9945]

Those Ammonites would make fabulous pendants with a bit of wire wrapping. Such amazing treasure. Sure do enjoy each and every larking excursion. Thank you so very much for taking us along. Nothing like that here in central Texas that I'm aware of. Cheers!

[@Tom_J23]

Thx for great video Nicola❤️!

[@BriarRouge]

Those coasters are gorgeous!

[@neiljenkins2011]

Thank you. I enjoyed this a lot. I've picked up the odd bit from the rubbish spillage section, but I tend to be more on the lookout for the iron pyrite ammonites and other fossils. Loved that piece of Delft clock face.

[@tomfisher2103]

That was a beautiful location with some great finds, those fossils were amazing.

[@momtrips6783]

loved this!

[@colletmilitaria7467]

beautiful finds as per usual! love the anchor

[@rach940]

Really enjoyed Nicola, thank you. The fossils would make beautiful jewellery! Lovely that you posted an edited version as I didn’t get a chance to watch the first one x

[@rogerwright9096]

GREAT ITEMS AS ALWAYS . LOVE WATCHING YOUR ADVENTURES AND ALL OF THE HIDDEN TREASURES THAT ARE FOUND !PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING .

[@Adam-Gates-Mudlark]

Love the anchor find Nicola!!⚓️⚓️⚓️ At my event today, a man mentioned you larking the Thames 🙂 the south coast Mudlarks are absolutely brilliant!!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Adam we'll have to meet up again soon

[@SouthCoastMudlarks]

Thank you Adam!

[@Adam-Gates-Mudlark]

@@SouthCoastMudlarks your welcome 🙂

[@helenburke9507]

I could just sit my Fanny down on one of the rocks and scrape away. Wow. What a great place.

[@larkdavis6041]

Oh how lucky you are to be able to find such wonderful history! To be able to find animates is just absolutely wonderful!

[@Pluggit1953]

That’s a cake fork!

[@Merylstreep1949]

On the 6th repeat watching of this 👌 A dream come true....Hopefully more Lyme or Exeter in the future please Nicole x

[@kellymedlin4340]

Looks like this beach also has some beautiful red agate as well! 😍

[@jenninaluznyj]

Like the little fossils very attractive finds.

[@lisapeters4394]

Very enjoyable video. Loved the burnt bottles. Thanks for sharing.

[@lindagomez3114]

Love the scenery animals and music

[@KayInMaine]

The bent fork you found would also make a great turtle head (with the body made out of glass like you do so well!), Nicola. :D Great finds! Loving the fossils!

[@dthomp06]

I’ve been wanting to go to Lyme Regis for years, but I’m never in that area when back home in the UK. Thanks for giving us a taste of what it is like.

[@patifagan6774]

Love your videos,miss them

[@auntbebbo]

I love all you mudlarking adventures, but I especially loved this episode with fossils! I haven’t found anywhere to look for treasure here in Kentucky, but enjoy my yearly shelling trip to Florida, where we find hundreds of fossilized shark teeth.

[@ralphwood9865]

Well done on restoring this vlog Nicola complete with the appropriate editing.I'd say it deserves a tea ,coffee or whatever tickles your fancy ......I dont want you to become fossilized. Hale you say ,it must be summer in England So Take care you treasure Nicola, Cheers from me XXX

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Ralph 😘

[@charlotte0069]

Hi Nicola, I watched the first post of this video and I’m glad to be watching again. It’s a wonderful place, my girls found fossils there when we visited years ago… I was not so lucky😕. I’m off to East Sussex nxt week so I’m hoping to wander a few beaches while I’m there although might be tricky as I’m on crutches but I’m determined😄 thank you for your wonderful videos 🙂

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you so much Charlotte. I hope you all have a wonderful time in East Sussex. 😘

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

I just looked up Lyme Regis on the map. Here in Massachusetts, USA, we have a Weymouth, Dorchester, Taunton, Bridgewater, Wareham, and a Ware

[@samblackwell3479]

Hello there from Taunton, Somerset 👋

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

@@samblackwell3479 Greetings from Dedham, Norfolk county.

[@Pluggit1953]

Hello from Shrewsbury in the UK - appropriately the birthplace of Charles Darwin.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

@@Pluggit1953 Shrewsbury Massachusetts just east of Worcester. And I have a shelf full of Darwin books.

[@sarahamilton7903]

So many of the people escaping to America came from the south west of England. Such an epic journey fraught with danger, which has parallels in today’s world.

[@lavinleitrim44]

I'm adoring your videos, especially that you include the items after clean-up, as well as any interesting or historial information you could attain about them. It's lovely that you show off your comparable items with the new finds. I also want to add that watching the first 2 videos of yours I had this familiariy niggle about your face, like I somehow knew you, then on the 3rd one I realised you remind me of Bette Midler.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thanks Laverne! ( And that's a first! I've never been compared to Bette Midler before!)

[@carolyoung3793]

Beautiful fossils and finds xx

[@LarWolkan]

Ba-da-boom..."Drum rim-shot" at the end Ha! Thanks for the re-post!

[@hardyakka6200]

That was good to watch. Not many places that you can go to now Nicola that someone will recognise you. Must be nice to be invited to another mudlarks area to scour the mud, rocks, and sand for treasures.

[@susanpye9821]

Those fossils were amazing great video.

[@marjane4344]

Brilliant finds

[@admiralcraddock464]

I went there 4 years ago and there was so much hammering from people breaking open rock i was concerned for my hearing. I found bugger all. I think the local pubs, cafe's and hotels go out at night to scatter fragments about to keep the tourist flocking in.

[@Catmoore60]

Sometimes it’s all about the weather. I find more things after a storm, because it churns things up from below, and erodes more from above.

[@mastermalaprop]

@@pbird5351 Sometimes you can find a fossil 😀

[@mastermalaprop]

@@Catmoore60 Yep, a good scouring tide is best

[@MsPixi66]

Hi Nicola and all just thought I'd let you know we were off to Lyme Regis yesterday so the night before I watched your video and found a vertebrae just like your friend so I thank you both cause if I hadn't seen that I would have missed it😀x

[@SmallWonda]

Glad you posted your jaunt to Lyme - I am so amazed they used to dump the rubbish on the cliffs!! I think the shaker found was to dry ink - not sure what they're called. Keep safe!

[@caiti6136]

I just wanted to say how much you've inspired me to get out and try and find some history. A few weeks ago I'd never heard of mudlarking, I was always interested in archaeology but a few weeks ago one of your videos was in my recommended videos and I watched what amazing things you'd found in the Thames. I told my mum what I'd been watching and she told me that my nan, on her breaks at work, would go to the river and pick up things she found interesting. She then showed me 4 clay pipes and some bottle tops that my nan had found 50 years ago! Hopefully next week my mum, my son and I are going to go to the same place my nan found things (where the river Darent meets the Thames) and I'm hoping we find atleast one little treasure! Thank you for inspiring me and showing me the world of mudlarking.

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Hi Caiti, thank you for your comment. I'm so delighted that you're inspired. Isn't that amazing that your Nan used to search for objects in the river!? I hope you have a great outing. Let me know if you find anything ❤️

[@jefferykubitz4510]

I always enjoy watching your videos. It would be fun to mudlark in England someday.

[@LavishHim]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 lovely and different!

[@buzzawuzza3743]

excellent and informative

[@ScottishGoldHunter]

Just came across your channel Nicola! Nice vid👍🏻 That’s me subscribed⛏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@raymurray6822]

Loved It!!

[@abrakaprogroup9077]

Bird with wings open sitting on float is saying "Look Look I haz wings!!! I sooooooo cool!"...:)

[@eleanorstone2056]

I was very interested in your beautiful fossils. I think that weird anchor thing could be a kilt pin. I have seen one that looked very much like that. You stab it through the layers of cloth on your shoulder to keep the top kilt wrap in place.

[@dalegowing]

Excellent hunt! Very nice anchor 😀

[@pietbeekhuis3724]

Nice VID Nic thanks mate !!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Thank you ❣️

[@damar-xv7ei]

اجمل شي هو انك تجعليننا نعيش اللحظه معك شكرا لك صديقتي

[@VintageArtist]

I really enjoyed this video!!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

I'm glad! X

[@sarapulford5957]

Metal thing with a tap looks like a wall gas light thingie.

[@marionbowler5440]

Well done Nic.🇨🇦🐘🍁👣

[@elizabethscruggs1622]

When u held up the anchor I believe I saw an entire clay pipe right there! Either u missed it or it was on a place you cant go. Lol love you Nic cxxoooxx

[@MetamorphicWonders]

Great film. Keep an eye out for those milk glass radioactive bits !!!!!

[@annadenaro9919]

Great video as always. I also watched the original.

[@abdelhak6470]

Waaw; that fossil realy looks metalic and shiny !! It's surprising that the mother-of-pearl (Aragonite) of the ammonite shell didn't dissolve and still sticking to the rock after so many millions of years !!Interesting video. 🤗

[@DickHolman]

Fossilisation replaces minerals like aragonite with, in this case, pyrites, hence the metallic, goldish colouration.

[@abdelhak6470]

@@DickHolman : Interesting; thank you.

[@karenabendshien846]

Lovely video!

[@1d1ane]

- nice finds and friends.

[@suebt8794]

Nicola you bring interest and joy into my life. Fascinating vlogs. BUT...no idea...lol you make me laugh

[@S-I-T]

Love it there. Don't love the drive to it though. Near vertical roads. Scary stuff.

[@hilarybromley3064]

Love Lyme Regis

[@natesquestyouknowthatsrigh8269]

Fantastic

[@jonathandill3557]

Was that a pastry fork at the beginning? At first, I thought some tines were just joined by sediment, but apparently pastry forks are designed with a wider, knife-like section.

[@amandahunt1433]

Love it. Although when I normally go there a seagull mugs me of my fish and chips. 🤭

[@janelchambers6791]

Lovely place you all did not do anything wrong, love this video

[@billcotton1551]

The detail of the fossils is remarkable.

[@stephentuckfield4425]

Magnificent video..thanks.