We're down here at the invitation of Natural England
because a storm broke up this magnificent Ammonite Pavement
and as you can see there's lots of blocks of it
scattered far and wide.
A few pieces have broken off in the past
but nothing of this scale
This whole area is massively different from the last time I was here
even massively different from just before Christmas.
So this is part of the Jurassic Coast.
It has the entire Mesozoic, so everything from the Triassic which is way over there,
right up to the Cretaceous, which is way over there.
So it all comes together, and it's a World Heritage Site because of that.
We are really interested to rescue some blocks
because if they get lest here then the sea will break them up further and wear them away
and there's a lot of scientific potential in there.
When it's in situ you can't see the bottom of it
so this is a really exciting opportunity to see what's on the underside of the blocks.
There's loads of mysteries to solve because we aren't able to sample this site,
this has been as it is for millions and millions of years
and the opportunity to see what is living in there.
Obviously we can see there's ammonites and bits of wood
and lots of bivalves and lots of shelly animals,
but it's a good opportunity to actually see what else is going on and figure out the story.
What happened? Why are there lots of ammonites?
