Farnham Museum

Size: 678 Specimens (428 fossils and 250 rocks)

Content:
Most are non-local British fossils including some good Palaeozoic (Wenlock Limestone [Silurian] and Carboniferous Limestone corals, crinoids, and brachiopods and Coal Measures plants) and Mesozoic ( Lias and Oolite [Jurassic] ammonites, gastropods, and bivalves, plus some good Lias fish Dapedium politum and fragmentary icthyosaur fragments ).

The collection of chalk fossils almost certainly contains some local material, but unfortunately these lack associated data.

There are also some Tertiary (Eocene) fossils and Pleistocene - including Lower Pleistocene from the East Anglian Crags.

Fossils of probable local origin include gastropods in Paludina Limestone (Wealden), Lower Greensand (Bargate Beds?) ammonites, fossil wood and oysters (LGS?), a collection of Gault ammonites from Wrecclesham Chine (local?), plus a variety of echinoids, ammonites, and oysters, some of which may have been collected from the Hogs Back area.

Possible local Pleistocene finds include fragmentary mammoth teeth and tusk and Pleistocene/Holocene deer antler. The almost complete specimen of a supposedly locally found but as yet undescribed fossil (ray) fish, referred to as "the Farnham Fish", is arguably the most important specimen within the collection.

The rock collection is a mixed one of British rocks, but includes examples of most of the local rock types. There is also a mediocre collection of common minerals.

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