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Mike Webster - March 2010 |
Just to note that the access down to the beech on the East side of the Rock a Nore Car Park is difficult for families. There were clearly once steps but all of this is eroded away and broken down, so there is a certain amount of clambering to be done. Small children would have to be lifted down. There were interesting pickings on the slopes as we climbed down with Lepidotes scales and teeth found. The cliffs in places appeared very unstable and I would advise take great care and if you insist on going to the base of the cliff a hard hat is a must. Reasonably interesting finds with blocks of bivalves and some good splitting of slabs with plenty of plant material, but too degraded to be identifiable. A good first visit and will be back, I agree with Joe that luck is required here for that really good find and a knowledge of what slabs are worth a punt with a hammer and chisel is key. I didn't see any Dino's staring out at me though from the cliff!!My experience is they are much harder to find than that. |
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Whats This - 1995-1996 |
When I was around 5 or 6 me, my mun and dad went to Hastings for the day and we took a large tram up the huge hills and {I think} had a picknick on top or the cliffs. Now I was getting pretty bored so my dad decided o take me down these little gaps in the cliffs {which were very thin} and as he jumped down a little further he said "wait move to this side and jump down" I didnt know what he was talking about so I just did as he said and I turned to look at the part I wasnt alowed to climb off, and to my amazment there was a giant dinasaur head! The whole body was encased in the cliffs but the head and parts of the back were poking out. It looked to me like a whole dinasaur and as we climbed back up I could see parts of the back. It looked metal and greyish black. Since this was so long ago I dont remember exact details and if it was a fake dinasaur or what? But I doubt it because of the way it was so tightly encased.
I sill get a bit spooked out by it especially since there was no one around for quite a distance and My dad never spoke or it again.
Jade |
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Joe Shimmin and Flavia Faedo. |
I've visited Hastings a few times. The first was with on an organised trip with my local geological society. On that ocasion I was pretty dissapointed with what there was to be found. I looked around and all I saw was barren rocks and some dubious dinosaur footprints. The geology is magnificent though. The layers in the cliffs are beautiful and the ripple marks in some of the rocks are fantastic. To cheer me up on the first visit I did find a piece of dinosaur bone about half a clenched fist in size - which was my first and only piece. So it wasn't all bad.
On other trips I didn't find much at all, but did take some bone bed home to break up. In this I found loads of the round Lepidotus teeth as well as bits of bone etc, but nothing amazing. I'd say for a first time visit it's best to enjoy the geology of the place, have a look around for dino bones, but don't get dissapointed if you don't find any, and concentrate on breaking up some bone bed if you come across any as that's where you're most likely to find fossils.
I'm guessing that Hastings is one of those locations where you may find nothing but there is also chance that you may find something really spectacular; so I daresay if I was local to the area, I'd visit more frequently and have more luck. |
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