Identifying Rocks and Fossils from North-East Norfolk
Exploring on Cromer beach
A 'Fossils' day at Cromer Musuem
North-east Norfolk is one of the classic areas for finding rocks and fossils.
It lies at the crossroads of geological history in East Anglia: the passage of ice sheets, the flow of big rivers, rises and falls of sea level and the to and fro of coastlines over a multi-million-year timespan. These forces have left us with a unique legacy of rocks and fossils, and a distinctive landscape.
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Much of the coast in the area is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Fossil finds of mammal material in particular should be reported to Cromer Museum for cataloguing and photography. That way, we can build up more detail about prehistoric life on the Deep History Coast.
West Runton cliffs
