There’s nothing quite like coming across your very own piece of the Earth’s history. CHRISSY HARRIS goes fossil hunting along the Jurassic Coast coast
Ammonites await along the Jurassic CoastPHOTOGRAPH JURASSIC COAST TEAM The sun rises on another spectacular day on East Devon’s coastSee the Jurassic Coast in East Devon aboard a Stuart Line cruise If you’re lucky, you can find a previously unseen ammonite fossil hidden in a rockJurassic Coast ambassador Mike Green and his wife CarolPHOTOGRAPHS VISIT DEVON; STUART LINE CRUISES; CHRISSY HARRIS Amazing views of the dramatic coast on board a Stuart Line cruise boat.
The anticipation is what drives you on. Could this next rock be the one? Am I about to discover a species unknown to science? “It’s pretty addictive,” says lifelong fossil enthusiast, Mike Green. “You start out and then the hours go by and you realise you’ve just been staring at the ground.”
Mike, a local Jurassic Coast ambassador, has kindly agreed to take me and my entourage (husband, two teenagers and a Labrador) out fossiling for the day along a stretch of this World Heritage site.
The Jurassic Coast spans 95 miles from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset and is the only place on Earth where rocks from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods can be seen in one place.
The scenery is mind-blowing – layers and layers of geology spanning as far as the eye can see. Except we’re not looking up.
“Here you go, there’s a really good one,” says Mike, pointing at an ammonite the size of a Frisbee on
