As Ipswich Museum slowly reappears from beneath the scaffolding, many of its terracotta features are becoming viewable. This new image, by the Museum's Carrie Calver, shows a representation of the Cretaceous bivalve Inoceramus.
Fine weather brought 300+ visitors to Friars Meadow in Sudbury on May 30th. The chidren really enjoyed holding the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur vertebrae - real Jurassic in their hands! And we had more - a box of Crag 'coprolites' for them to handle and discuss.
These fossil Gryphaea oysters are part of a collection of glacial erratics from Mid-Suffolk given to GeoSuffolk earlier this month. We are sorting them -some will go to a Museum and others will star on some of GeoSuffolk's outreach stands this year. These Gryphaea are 9-10 cm across and have been brought by the ice to Suffolk from Jurassic clays which stretch from the Fenland to Yorkshire.
The green, glauconite-coated flints of the Bull Head Bed are instantly recognisable. Find out more, plus about percussion cones in flint at Ipswich Minster, in GeoSuffolk Times 65
The Westleton Common CGS sand and gravel has recently been refreshed by the local Common Advisory Group. Read about this, SSSI updates and Suffolk Naturalist Society's White Admiral back issues online - all in GeoSuffolk Times 64.