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Elmbridge Museum

Size: 523 Specimens (333 fossils and 190 minerals and rocks)

Content:
A fairly mixed collection of British and local fossils.

The local fossils are fewer in number but include those from the chalk (Horsley), or derived ones found in the local gravels, from the London Clay, and from the Lower-Middle-Upper Eocene (St.Georges Hill) etc.

In addition, there are one or two finds of Pleistocene mammals such as woolly mammoth teeth and fragments of tusk from gravel pits at Fieldcommon Lane, Walton on Thames, Walton and Herstham, and Sunbury (femur and humerus of mammoth and woolly rhino).

There is also a small collection here of fossil ammonites and mineral 'spars'which once adorned the 18th.century grotto at nearby Oatlands Park.

The museum has produced a small reference collection of minerals for jewellery identification and teaching.

Collectors/collections:

F.H.Wintle, Oatlands Park, Weybridge Town Council

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