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Juniper Hall Field Study Centre

Juniper Hall
Box Hill
Dorking
Surrey RH5 6DA

0845 458 3507

Size: 4-500 Specimens (rocks and fossils)

Content:
One 12 drawer cabinet, most of which is of local (Wealden) rocks and fossils, arranged stratigraphically.

The collection is fairly comprehensive and includes labelled (localised) specimens from most of the formations represented, from Purbeck, Wealden, Lower Greensand, Gault, Upper Greensand, Chalk, Palaeocene, Lower Eocene, Middle Eocene, and Pleistocene.

Whilst it includes the Sussex Weald, many of the specimens are from Surrey localities, in particular those on the chalk at Ashted, Headley, Mickleham, and the from the Hogs Back (Guildford).

Non-local fossils include a drawer of mixed Palaeozoic and Mesozoic [Jurassic] fossils (most of them British), and a collection of 20+ Atherfield Clay (Lower Greensand) fossils from Boulogne, France.

Other (larger) fossils include a fine fossil fish Lepidotes mantelli from the Wealden of Hastings and a local (?) chalk ammonite Parapuzosia.