Field Excursion Programme - Summer 2010

Please contact our Field Secretary for further details and to register your participation. Field excursion details available as at 14 April 2010. Updates will be published when available.

Date

Venue

Leader(s)

Saturday 8th May

 

Monsal Head,Bakewell, Derbyshire.

We will visit Hob’s House landslip including the eponymous ‘coral bed’ in the morning, followed by lunch at Monsal Head. The afternoon will consist of a circular walk (approx 3-4 km) from Ashford village, some rough ground and steepish gradients may be encountered. This will give us an opportunity to see the remains of past industries centred on the black marble and chert of the area. There will be an optional extension to this walk to look at Magpie Mine and if time allows a visit to a ‘new’ roadside cutting just outside Bakewell where the leader has found trilobite remains!

Mike Allen
Friday 4th - Sunday 6th June

Sandown, Isle of Wight

Weekend field excursion.

Dr David Martill

Wednesday 22nd June, 6.30pm

Tilton Railway Cutting Evening field visit. Children welcome.

Dr Roy Clements
Saturday 3rd July

Bardon Quarry

Dr Frank Ince
Saturday 17th July

Faringdon Sponge Gravels

We will visit a quarry at Wicklesham and an SSSI at Coxwellend.

Owen Green
Saturday 14th August

Trip cancelled. Rescheduled for Oct 9th.

John Aram
Saturday 4th September

Bradley Fen, Whittlesey

Cliff Nicklin

October (tbc)

Member of Museum staff