#fossilhunting

Join me on Day 2 of my Isle of Wight fossil adventure. I spend most of the day at Rocken End, St Catherines Point which is the southern most part of the island. This is where a large landslide has exposed big blocks of glauconitic marl at the start of the chalk. Its packed full of schloenbachia varians and other species such as mantelliceras and hypoturrilites.

[@maggiehansen6572]

Lots of hard work paying off, some great finds 🌊⚒️😀👌

[@fossiliferous]

Plenty at Rocken End. Preservation is a bit ropey on some though

[@delfic1108]

Nice finds. Congratulations on surviving the treacherous trails of man eating brambles!

[@fossiliferous]

Thanks the brambles were pretty vicious!

[@Tony-tt3sc]

Very interesting finds, can’t wait to see them once prepped.

[@fossiliferous]

Unfortunately a lot of the Rocken end stuff is not coming out so good. It's very soft and badly preserved.

[@davidthomas6859]

Great finds mate Rocken End makes you work for them ,good haul though ❤

[@fossiliferous]

Lots of chiselling but it's nothing like the ironstone.

[@terrydodsworth7350]

Nice looking ammonites, even the bivalves and gastropods look like they are ready to do battle with each other 👍

[@fossiliferous]

It's a right jumble. I was talking g to a guy at Shanklin and he was saying the glauconitic marls were actually a redeposit of material hence why it all looks to have been stirred up

[@terrydodsworth7350]

I wish lincolnshire had more availabe places to hunt, thats why i head for yorks coast, but it looks like a nice place for a hols n hunt where you are, good luck on your next hunt there👍

[@christinl9559]

Hi, could you walk from St. Catherine's Lighthouse? That path looks terrible. 😅

[@fossiliferous]

I think you can. I walked towards the lighthouse on the last video. It did seem to be the long way though. I wouldn't say the path was all that bad.