{"id":1858,"date":"2013-03-26T23:27:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2013-03-26T23:27:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:27:37","slug":"fossil-hunting-in-central-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/2013\/03\/fossil-hunting-in-central-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil Hunting in Central London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fossil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1861 aligncenter\" title=\"Fossil found in the wall of London building\" alt=\"fossil\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fossil-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day <a title=\"Ray Blackburn\" href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/guides\/ray-blackburn\">Ray<\/a> forwarded this great video clip from the BBC website and it set us thinking &#8211; where can you find fossils in Central London<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-19574619\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-19574619<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of our suggestions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fossil filled Jurassic Limestone is being used in a lot of new buildings &#8211; have a look at Plantation Place on Fenchurch Street<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Jenni Bowley\" href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/guides\/jenni-bowley\">Jenni<\/a> can show you a megalosaurus footprint on the wall of a Post Office near Bank<\/li>\n<li>The new entrance to Green Park tube is covered in fossils, and if you really get stuck its decorated in fossil patterns too<\/li>\n<li>As part of the dinosaurs of Crystal Palace park\u00a0a section of geological strata was\u00a0created, some of it containing fossils <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorianweb.org\/science\/geology1.html\">http:\/\/www.victorianweb.org\/science\/geology1.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you really want to see fossils in situ head to Lesnes Abbey Woods in South East London where a small fossil bed often yields sharks teeth from the Eocene period<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still stuck? We can show you some fossils like the ones in our picture on our Walking the Hidden River Fleet walk see <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/walkingthefleet\">http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/walkingthefleet<\/a> for details, the next walks are on 28th March and 19th May<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day Ray forwarded this great video clip from the BBC website and it set us thinking &#8211; where can you find fossils in Central London http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-19574619 Here are some of our suggestions Fossil filled Jurassic Limestone is being used in a lot of new buildings &#8211; have a look at Plantation Place on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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