{"id":11550,"date":"2021-02-18T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=11550"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:47:36","slug":"gravel-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/2021\/02\/18\/gravel-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravel Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences<\/a>, we challenged our selves to get families back outside after being locked-down all spring and to find out more about the geology local to Cambridge.<\/h2>\n

Flint gravel was the answer. It is easily recognised and easily over looked as a good fossil hunting ground. It has also been important to the economy of East Anglia as well as helping us to understand the geology of the area going back 90 million years. Even more important for a family activity is that it is easy to find in back gardens, car parks and driveways and doesn’t require any special tools to find the fossils.<\/p>\n

Team Sedgwick\u00a0met in a sunny car park armed with our phones, a script and some willing helpers. We produced a short film introducing flint gravel and the fossilised creatures hidden within. The Gravel Hunters film tells the story of how gravel is formed and a downloadable sheet helps to make identifying the most common flint fossils easy.<\/p>\n

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Sponge fossil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Gravel Hunters film has been used for:<\/h3>\n