Gallery 44 - Lulworth Cove to Seacombe
Fossil Forest - 1
The Fossil Forest can be found down a flight of Steps near here, just inside 'Lulworth Range'
This provides the most complete fossilised record of a Jurassic forest in the world
Recently reopened (21/03/20) , with new steps and railings , after a rockfall in 2015.
One group of fossils is easily found here with more after a scramble eastwards along the tilted strata .
Fossils - Thrombolites formed around coniferous trees submerged in the Purbeck lagoon near the end of the Jurassic Period ( 145 MYA).
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Date: 12/12/2020
Location: SY 831 796