Take a walk down Crag Path (Aldeburgh), visit Gainsborough's House Museum (Sudbury), read about the Coralline Crag in GeoSuffolk Times no 58
Part of the external wall of Gainsborough's House Museum.
This attractive creamy-yellow limestone, found only in Suffolk, has been quarried as a building stone for many centuries. To find out how it formed, where to see it and more about its use in history download GeoSuffolk's new leaflet Suffolk's Coralline Crag Rock-Bed.
Download GeoSuffolk Times no 57 for news of the Arts Council England Designation of Ipswich Museum's geology collection. Also read about the latest Pliocene Forest at Sutton.
It's always a pleasure to visit the less well known parts of Dunwich. One of our favourites is the Leper Chapel by St James' Church, photographed last week. Its splendid stonework shows limestone arches enclosing Eocene mudstone blocks.
A walk along the public footpath past Ferry Cliff (near Sutton Hoo) in early March revealed a view of recent landslipping with fresh exposures of Red Crag sand.