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Holmesdale Natural History Club Museum

Size: up to 500 Specimens

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A good collection of local (both Reigate and Surrey) and non-local British rocks, minerals, and fossils.

Local fossils are stratigraphically arranged within drawers and display cases in the museum and the local Lower Greensand including Perna Bed (Atherfield Clay) from Earlswood Common, Sandgate Bed fossils (from Fullers Earth workings, Redhill), Hythe Beds (sponge spicules), and Bargate Beds are particularly well represented, alongside specimens from the Reigate chalk, and ?local Gault.

A number of large Lower Greensand ammonites such as Parahoplites nutfieldensis and chalk ammonites (Acanthoceras and Parapuzosia sp.) within the museum are probably also of local origin, as are some fossils from the Surrey Wealden.

There are several collections of local Pleistocene mammal fossils such as the bones of an auroch from Frenches Sandpit, Redhill, and mammoth teeth.

In addition to examples of local rock types there are a number of minerals icluding particularly good finds of honey coloured baryte from the Fullers Earth workings at Nutley, Redhill.

Non-local fossils are varied but include Red Crag, London Clay, and Hampshire and IOW Tertiary fossil, Upper Lias ammonites and other Jurassic fossils, Coal Measure plant fossils, and a good collection of Ordovician corals and trilobites from Pomeroy, Eire.

As well as several small sampled collections of rocks and minerals, there is a small specimen of the Agra (India) 1882 iron-nickel meteorite!

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