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2023 July

A Working Party was arranged for 1st July. The four year break due to Covid etc meant we had been kept away from the site, so we returned to find a large talus slope (about 3metres high) and significant growth of the vegetation.

Using picks and shovels about half the talus slope was removed, which was carried by buckets to the spoil heap, ready for any visitors to hunt for fossils. In parallel, a large amount of vegetation was removed to enable access to the site; clear the spoil heap; and make the exposure more visible.

2019

March

The excavation of the site removed loose rubble from the chalk face and to excavated into the underlying Chalk Rock. This was followed rapidly by Hertfordshire conservation volunteers visiting the site to clear a large amount of scrub vegetation and to build a new set of steps into the chalk pit. During this visit Jack Doyle was welcomed back on site to show the volunteers some of the important fossils which had been discovered there

June

We held our first conservation visit to the site during which a very large amount of overhanging vegetation was removed and the chalk face was returned to what it had been during the early 1980s.