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SMCC > Collections > Geology > Index of recent geological items

Index of local fossils, rocks and minerals found within museums in the county

 

Description of specimen and place of origin followed by bracketed number which refers to museum where the specimen is stored.

 

Recent

  • box of local soils Godalming area (12)
  • soil monolith from Blackdown (15)
  • box of soil samples incl. Staplehurst, Wye etc. (15)

Pleistocene

  • woolly mammoth molar teeth ?Redhill-Reigate area (21)
  • mammoth molars ? Giles Green,Dorking (16)
  • mammoth molars ? Farnham area (14)
  • mammoth molar London Rd.Railway Cutting,Guildford (8)
  • mammoth molar Stone Bridge gravel pit, Bramley (8)
  • mammoth molar Shalford (8)
  • mammoth molar gravel pits, Fieldcommon Lane, Walton on Thames (5)
  • mammoth molars Greenham Sand & Gravel Co.(now infilled) Kempton Park (3)
  • mammoth molars ?Chertsey area (4)
  • mammoth molars (juvenile) " (4)
  • mammoth molar gravel pit off Staines Lane nr.Chertsey (4)
  • mammoth molar Telephone Exchange Site, Leapole Rd. Guildford (15)
  • mammoth molar Wiggie Sandpit, Redhill (15)
  • mammoth molar Goosden Farm, Bramley (15)
  • mammoth molar Nore Waterworks, Cranleigh (15)
  • mammoth molar Cranleigh (15)
  • mammoth tusk Farnham area (14)
  • mammoth tusk Bridge Street, Godalming (12)
  • mammoth tusk gravel pits, Blackwater Valley, nr.Camberley (7)
  • mammoth tusk Walton or Herst Gravel Pit nr.Walton on Thames (5)
  • mammoth tusk Greenham Sand & Gravel Co. pit, Kempton Park (3)
  • mammoth tusk and bone London Rd.Railway Cutting, Guildford (15)
  • mammoth tibia Mareos Sandpit, Chertsey (22)
  • mammoth humerus or femur ?local Guildford area (8)
  • mammoth femur or humerus gravel pits Sunbury (5)
  • mammoth long bone Greenham Sand & Gravel Co.pit, Kempton Park (3)
  • rhinoceras bone ?Mareos Sandpit, Chertsey (22)
  • woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) teeth, tibia, ulna, scapula ?Giles Green, Dorking (16)
  • woolly rhino femur or humerus gravel pits Sunbury (5)
  • woolly rhino large humerus Greenham Sand & Gravel Co. pit, Kempton Park (3)
  • hippopotamus molar ?local to Camberley area (7)
  • auroch (Bos primigenius) horn core Mareos Sandpit, Chertsey(22)
  • auroch tibia Frenches Sandpit, Redhill (21)
  • auroch tibia Maneo Aggreates gravel pit,Thorpe, Chertsey (15)
  • auroch radius and teeth Giles Green, Dorking (16)
  • auroch vertebrae ?Charterhouse-Godalming area (13)
  • auroch horn core + bones ?Charterhouse-Godalming area(13)
  • auroch horn core Thorpe Gravel Pit (2)
  • auroch horn core Ferry Lane Pit, Shepperton (4)
  • ox metatarsal Mareos Sandpit, Chertsey (22)
  • ox bones Charlton Ballast Co.gravel pit,Shepperton (4)
  • ox bones (femur or humerus) Ferry Lane, Shepperton (4)
  • ox frontal bone of skull Mixams Lane Pit, Thorpe (4)
  • ox (auroch or longifrons) vertebrae Marco Aggregates, Mixams Lane, Thorpe (4)
  • wild horse humerus Frenches Sandpit, Redhill (21)
  • wild horse astragalus and?tibia ?Giles Green,Dorking (16)
  • horse bones Charlton Ballast Co.gravel pit,Shepperton (4)
  • horse skull [Pleistocene or Holocene?] : pit at Thorpe [TQ 04736918] or Shepperton (4)
  • red deer antler ?Mareos Sandpit, Chertsey (22)
  • red deer antler ?Giles Green, Dorking (16)
  • red deer antler West Humble ,Dorking (16)
  • red deer antler Ockford Waterworks, Surrey (12)
  • red deer antler Marcos Gravel Pit, Thorpe (4)
  • red deer antler(s) Ferry Lane Pit,Shepperton (4)
  • red deer antler with frontal bone Ferry Lane Pit, Shepperton (4)
  • red deer antlers and top of skull Ferry Lane Pit, Shepperton(4)
  • red deer vertebrae ?Charterhouse area (13)
  • reindeer (Tarandus rangifer) antler ?Giles Green, Dorking (16)
  • reindeer antler found at base of pit, Littleton Sailing Club (4)
  • fallow deer (Dama dama) base of antler Ferry Lane, Shepperton (4)
  • deer ilium, tibia, scapula ?Giles Green,Dorking (16)
  • goat (Capra sp.)bones Ferry Lane Pit, Shepperton (4)
  • bear (Ursus sp.) cranial bone ?Mareos Sandpit, Chertsey (22)
  • FW gastropods Succinea oblonga Chertsey Gravel Pit (22)
  • FW gastropods Lymnaea (radix) perega Chertsey Gravel Pit (22)
  • FW and terrest. gastropods Unio littoralis, Helix sp.,Bythinia sp. ?Charterhouse (13)
  • Plateau gravels Surrey (18)
  • Plateau Gravels Camberley Golf Course (7)
  • Coombe rock Surrey (18)
  • frost pitted flint Leatherhead (17)
  • sarsen fragment (ex-?Reading Beds) erratic in Bagshot Gravel Pit (12)
  • sarsen fragment (ex-?Reading Beds) erratic Surrey Heath area (7)
  • glacial erratic Old Red Sandstone, Trentham Gravel Pit (15)
  • loess or brickearth Surrey Heath area (7)
  • derived fossils incl. from chalk and also Laevitrigonia sp. (U.Jurassic) in local sands and gravels Longcross nr.Camberley (7)


Pliocene

  • Clay with Flints ?N. of Caterham (22)

 

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