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Godalming Museum
Size: 211 specimens (137 fossils)
Content:
Includes a small well localised collection of local fossils (all of reasonable
quality) from the Bagshot/ Guildford/ Godalming/ Binscombe area. Most
of the local chalk fossils are from Bagshot Lea and quarries in the Guildford/
Hogs'Back area, as are some of the local Tertiary. Large ammonites and
nautiloids 
from
the Lower Greensand Bargate Stone come from quarries within the Godalming
area itself, whilst the Atherfield Clay (lowermost Lower Greensand) fossils
are from Binscomb. Rock specimens of Upper Greensand malmstone are from
Binstead and other localities. There are very few local Pleistocene mammalian
fossils (one mammoth tooth found in Godalming excavations).
A number of the Wealden age fossils and rocks may be from Surrey or Sussex.
However, there are a couple of rather more spectacular specimens of turtle
(shell) and fish in limestone which may be Wealden, but which are probably
of Purbeck (Upper Jurassic) age and from Dorset.
Collectors:
G.B.Hartfree
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