Watchet Fossil Hunting

Watchet is rich in reptile remains and ammonites are also common. There are also some spectacular faults, which can be seen along with fossil casts of giant ammonites on the foreshore. This is a must-visit location for anyone in the area who is into fossils.

FIND FREQUENCY: ♦♦♦♦♦ – Watchet is very productive, but the best time to collect is during scouring conditions on the foreshore. Many reptile remains can be collected just west of Warren Bay.
CHILDREN: ♦♦♦♦♦ – This location is suitable for family trips and for young children, as fossils can be found on the foreshore.
ACCESS: ♦♦♦ – Access to the beach at Watchet can be achieved usually by parking in the town and walking from Watchet Harbour along the beach. However, if you want a more direct route, head for Warren Bay Campsite, just outside Watchet and park there. Follow the footpath directly to Warren Bay.
TYPE: Watchet is a foreshore and cliff location, so fossils can be found in both. However, the vast majority are found in rocks on the foreshore or exposed during scouring tides.

DIRECTIONS

♦ ACCESS 1: There is a car park near the small museum in the centre of Watchet, next to the harbour. The museum contains examples of locally found fossils (including an ichthyosaur skeleton) and books illustrating the fossils and strata of the area. Postcode: TA23 0AN
♦ Take the narrow footpath running next to the steam railway line (with the sea on your left hand side) and follow it up onto the cliff top. After a pleasant walk (of about half a kilometre), you reach a long set of steps onto the beach (with a good handrail).
♦ Once on the beach, head away from the lighthouse The rocks around the lighthouse are all Triassic and unfossiliferous.
♦ ACCESS 2: You can park along the promenade at Blue Anchor, walking East, go past Blue Anchor point and round the corner the Jurassic rocks start. Postcode: TA24 6JR
♦ ACCESS 3: From Blue Anchor (Note: The road from Watchet to Blue Anchor is now permanently closed), access the coastal road to Warren Bay Campsite which is just before the old road is closed off. Park at bottom of the campsite (with permission at reception), and access the beach from the middle of the bay. The concrete slope can be steep and sometimes slippery. Postcode: TA23 OJR
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FOSSIL HUNTING

Watchet is a bit of an unpredictable location. Sometimes, you can come away with nothing and other times buckets full. Much depends on beach conditions, but always take the right tools. It is also a good location for collecting bones from plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, although fresh cliff falls are often required. The bone in the photo was found in a bolder on the foreshore.

Bivalves, including scallop shells, oysters and Gryphaea are also common at Watchet and crinoid slabs are common around Warren Bay. Many ammonites can be found, although they are mainly broken, unless you are lucky enough to arrive after a fresh cliff fall. They can be found scattered on the foreshore, but are usually just fragments. However, occasionally, you will get an ammonite in a small nodule or, if lucky, a complete ammonite that has fallen out of its nodule.

The second prime location for ammonites is at the location from where most of the bones are found, that is, past the major fault which has been undercut by the sea where the Lias starts again. Ammonites are also often found in the fine shingle heading towards Blue Anchor. The rock (shale) in the bottom layer is extremely soft and wet, and fractures into fine sheets when stressed. In some areas, this shale contains imprints of ammonites (up to 30cm in diameter). A number of small whole and sections of larger pearly ammonites can also be found from this layer scattered around on the rock platforms.

Rocks from the Triassic Blue Anchor bone bed can also be found, which contain fish, reptile and shark remains. There are two main locations where bones can be found, although, generally, they can be found anywhere on the foreshore. The first is from the foreshore where the entrance to the camp site is, stretching west, until you reach the red Triassic beds. The second is when you reach the massive fault that the sea always reaches (which is notable for the algae and overhangs). Beyond this point, the Lias begins again just before Blue Anchor. This is the main location from where bones are found. The bones come from the top part of the cliff, and they often fall and can be picked up from the foreshore.

Between Warren Bay and Blue Anchor, there is a large Triassic rock in the middle of the foreshore. If you search along the foreshore around this area, crinoid slabs can be found. The yellowish limestone blocks surrounding the steps originate from the cliff and are rich in a variety of bivalves, including scallop shells, oysters and Gryphaea. The rock is quite hard but, if you search the foreshore around the blocks, you can find well preserved shells, especially oysters and Gryphaea buried in the sand.

Rock platforms extend along most of the foreshore. At certain times of the year, they become buried in sand and/or mud deposits and can be difficult to access.

At very low tides, searching the mud at the waterline can yield some excellently preserved specimens. Local reports have included instances of finding whole crinoids (although these do not appear to feature in the rocks further along the foreshore).

Ammonites are also often found within the fine shingle heading towards Blue Anchor. In many places the rock platforms contain two quite distinct rock layers. While it is difficult to extract fossils from the very soft shale due to its texture, the white ammonites can be extracted by carefully using a chisel to split off sheets of rock. (Fossils need to be placed into a protective container. As specimens dry, they tend to split from the surrounding rock and crumble. Slow the drying process by keeping the fossils wrapped in plastic with small air holes for several weeks seems to work well.)

The rock in the top layer of the photograph showing the bedding structure lacks fine bedding planes and is much easier to handle. In some areas, it contains white ammonites or imprints of them.

Some of the most significant fossil discoveries and scientific milestones from Watchet include important early Jurassic marine reptile finds, one of the oldest known plesiosaurs, major Ichthyosaurus specimens from Doniford Bay, and later discoveries showing that the Watchet coast still produces scientifically important fossils.

1980s – near-complete Ichthyosaurus conybeari specimen collected by Peter Langham at Doniford Bay
A practically complete and fully articulated ichthyosaur skeleton was collected during low tide at Doniford Bay in the 1980s by professional fossil collector Peter Langham. This became one of the most important Watchet marine reptile finds and was later studied in detail as a key specimen of Ichthyosaurus conybeari.

2008 – plesiosaur rib bone discovered near Warren Bay
A plesiosaur rib bone was found along the shoreline near Warren Bay in 2008, with associated vertebrae and coprolites from the same animal also reported. Although less famous than the large articulated marine reptiles, it showed that the Watchet coast continues to produce important reptile material.

2012 – Eoplesiosaurus antiquior described from Watchet
Eoplesiosaurus antiquior was described in 2012 from a Watchet specimen found in the pre-planorbis beds of the Blue Lias. It is one of the oldest known plesiosaurs and made Watchet especially important in the study of the earliest evolution of the group.

Mid-1990s specimen, described 2016 – important new Ichthyosaurus conybeari from Watchet
A second major ichthyosaur specimen, found by Peter Langham at Doniford Bay in the mid-1990s, was later described in detail in 2016. This study helped refine understanding of Ichthyosaurus conybeari and confirmed Watchet as one of the key British sites for early Jurassic ichthyosaurs.

Mid-1990s specimen, described 2017 – large pregnant Ichthyosaurus from Doniford Bay
A large, well-preserved and mostly articulated ichthyosaur from Doniford Bay, originally found in the mid-1990s, was described in 2017. The specimen was notable for its size, excellent preservation and the presence of an embryo, making it one of the most significant modern marine reptile discoveries from the Watchet coast.

GEOLOGY

Watchet sits on the north Somerset coast where the land meets the Bristol Channel, and its “everyday” landscape—low cliffs, wave-cut platforms, small bays and a sheltered harbour—is tightly controlled by a narrow slice of Earth history spanning the very end of the Triassic and the beginning of the Jurassic. The town lies on the edge of the broader sedimentary basins of southern Britain, where repeated changes in sea level, climate and tectonic movement built a layered sequence of mudstones, shales and limestones. Those layers are then cut and crumpled by faults linked to long-lived basin structures and to the presence of subsurface evaporites (salts and sulphates) that can flow, dissolve and collapse, giving the Watchet coast its reputation for striking deformation features as well as fossils.

The oldest rocks seen around Watchet belong to the upper part of the Mercia Mudstone Group, a package dominated by red-brown mudstones and siltstones that records predominantly continental conditions in Late Triassic time. These fine-grained sediments accumulated on very low-relief ground, in environments that repeatedly swung between shallow water and exposure. In practical terms, that history is written into the rocks as blocky, structureless mudstones punctuated by reduction patches, thin sandier beds, desiccation features and abundant evaporite minerals. Gypsum occurs widely as nodules and veins, and the chemistry of the sediments points to restricted drainage and evaporation—exactly the kind of setting in which saline lakes, mudflats and sabkha-like plains can form. Around Watchet, these Mercia Mudstone beds are important not just as “the red clays in the cliffs”, but because they provide the mechanically weak, clay-rich foundations that encourage slope instability and help focus later faulting and deformation along the coast.

Up-section, the Mercia Mudstone Group becomes noticeably paler and greener as it passes into the Blue Anchor Formation, a distinctive unit that is famous on the west Somerset coast. The Blue Anchor Formation is dominated by grey-green to pale green dolomitic mudstones and siltstones, commonly with thin, hard, buff-coloured dolomitic beds and with features such as lamination, mudcracks, occasional halite pseudomorphs and locally abundant gypsum. This is a key transition interval: it represents the waning of strongly oxidising “red-bed” conditions and the growing influence of brackish to marine waters at the very end of the Triassic. The coastal exposures between Blue Anchor and Watchet are especially important because they show the full character of these “tea-green” and grey marls and how they grade upward into the next major environmental shift.

That next shift is the Rhaetian marine transgression recorded by the Penarth Group. At its base sits the Westbury Formation, typically a dark, organic-rich succession of mudstones or shales with thin limestones, sandstones and distinctive fossil-rich horizons commonly referred to as bone beds. In environmental terms, the contrast with the underlying Blue Anchor Formation is dramatic: the Westbury Formation marks the establishment of persistent marine conditions, with repeated reworking during storms and sea-level fluctuations producing shelly and bone-rich layers. Above it lies the Lilstock Formation, which captures a more variable, shallow-water story. Its lower part (the Cotham Member) includes grey-green mudstones, siltstones and sandstones formed in very shallow lagoons and tidal-flat settings that could periodically dry out, while the upper part (the Langport Member, historically known in many places as the “White Lias”) includes fine-grained, porcellanous limestones and calcareous mudstones representing very shallow shelf-lagoon environments. This Penarth Group succession is central to Watchet’s geological significance because it records the step-by-step switch from continental evaporitic plains to fully marine sedimentation just before the Jurassic began.

The boundary interval between the Triassic and Jurassic is exceptionally well displayed near Watchet, especially at St Audrie’s Bay a short distance to the east, and along nearby foreshore sections. Here, subtle changes in lithology and fossil content become globally important: the transition from Penarth Group sediments into the lowermost Lias Group includes beds that have long been debated and intensively studied because they sit right at the system boundary. Internationally, the base of the Jurassic is defined biostratigraphically by the first appearance of the ammonite genus Psiloceras, rather than purely by a change in rock type. In the Watchet area, the earliest Jurassic ammonites (notably Psiloceras planorbis) are historically significant and help anchor interpretations of where the boundary lies within the classic “Blue Lias” style succession. The result is that the Watchet coast is not only fossil-rich, but also a place where the fine detail of sedimentation, sea-level change and early Jurassic biotic recovery can be read directly from the rocks.

The lowest Jurassic strata in this area are part of the Lias Group, and the best-known unit within it is the Blue Lias Formation: a rhythmic alternation of limestones and calcareous mudstones or siltstones, with individual limestone beds commonly decimetre-scale in thickness. This alternation reflects repeated environmental or chemical shifts in shallow marine conditions, producing beds that weather into characteristic ledges and steps on the foreshore. The Blue Lias is also one of the key fossil-bearing units around Watchet and the wider north Somerset coast, known for ammonites and bivalves and for occasional vertebrate remains. Above the Blue Lias, the succession becomes more mudstone-dominated in formations such as the Charmouth Mudstone, reflecting changes in sediment supply and water depth across the Early Jurassic seas. Together, these rocks turn the coast into a natural cross-section through time, where bedding rhythms, fossil horizons and subtle changes in colour or carbonate content can be followed laterally for long distances.

What makes Watchet particularly memorable, though, is not only the stratigraphy but the structure: faults, folds and deformation zones are common on the foreshore and in the cliffs. Several factors combine to produce this. First, the Bristol Channel margin has a long tectonic history, and faults have been repeatedly reactivated as stresses changed through time. Second, Triassic successions in southern Britain commonly include evaporites at depth; salt can move (halokinesis) and both salt and gypsum can dissolve, creating voids and collapse structures that disrupt the overlying beds. Around Watchet, this combination produces localised folding, complex small-scale faulting, slickensided surfaces and disturbed zones where otherwise simple layer-cake stratigraphy becomes contorted. In places, faulting juxtaposes quite different units—dark marine shales and limestones against red or green mudstones—so that a short walk along the shore can cross large stratigraphic jumps. These structural complications are not just academic: they influence cliff stability, groundwater flow, and where particular beds are exposed (or hidden) along the coast.

Coastal processes then sculpt these rocks into the landforms people see. The Bristol Channel is highly tidal, and the repeated wetting and drying of broad intertidal areas encourages the development of extensive shore platforms on softer mudstones and interbedded limestone–mudstone successions alike. Around the Blue Anchor–Watchet–Lilstock stretch, platforms can be remarkably wide, and their surfaces often reflect the bedding architecture: limestones form more resistant ribs and low scarps, while mudstones weather into gentler, muddier benches. Where mudstones dominate, the platforms can be smoother and more easily cut back, but they are also prone to slumping and landsliding where waves undercut the base of cliffs. Cliff heights and platform widths vary along the coast according to rock type, structure and exposure to wave energy, producing a patchwork of bays, headlands and stepped foreshore profiles rather than a single uniform coastal form.

Finally, the modern surface cover adds a last layer of complexity. Valley bottoms and stream mouths contain alluvium—sands, gravels and silts laid down by rivers—while slopes can be mantled by head deposits formed by downslope movement of weathered material, especially under periglacial conditions during colder phases of the Quaternary. Landslip and colluvial deposits accumulate where clay-rich mudstones fail along slip planes, sometimes triggered by coastal erosion or heavy rainfall. These superficial materials can mask bedrock locally, but they also help explain why some parts of the Watchet coast are easier to access than others, why fresh fossil-bearing falls can appear after storms, and why cliff management is a continuing issue in a town built right at the edge of a rapidly changing shoreline.

The same geology has also shaped local building traditions across Somerset. The thin-bedded limestones of the Blue Lias, and the finer, pale limestones traditionally called White Lias in parts of the region, have been widely used as building and walling stones, valued for their ability to split into slabs and blocks but also known for characteristic weathering patterns. While Watchet’s coastal cliffs are best known to geologists for their boundary stratigraphy, fossils and structures, they sit within a county-wide story in which the Mesozoic rocks have long supplied practical materials for construction, lime and flooring. In that sense, Watchet’s geology is both globally significant in stratigraphic terms and locally influential in the everyday fabric of the built environment.

Taken together, the geology of Watchet is a compact but unusually rich record of change: arid continental mudflats giving way to a rapid marine incursion, shallow lagoons and tidal flats transitioning into fully marine Early Jurassic seas, and all of it later fractured and folded by fault movement and salt-related deformation. Few places offer such accessible exposures of the Triassic–Jurassic transition alongside such vivid structural features and coastal landforms, which is why the Watchet coast remains a classic destination for both fossil hunters and stratigraphers.

This is a detailed stratigraphic breakdown of the Lower Jurassic Blue Lias Formation at Watchet, Somerset. The section is famous for its classic limestone–shale cycles, early Jurassic ammonite faunas and fossiliferous foreshore beds, and it forms part of the wider west Somerset reference area for the base of the Jurassic and the lower Hettangian succession.

LIAS GROUP

Blue Lias Formation (Lower Jurassic — Hettangian to Lower Sinemurian)

Basal Blue Lias And Lowest Hettangian Beds

Bed W1 — Basal Fissile Mudstone Above The Sun Bed (c. 0.2–1.0 m)

Dark fissile mudstone resting above the hard grey calcareous mudstone of the Sun Bed. This marks the base of the Lias in Whittaker’s Somerset framework and represents the first persistent mudstone deposition of the Jurassic marine transgression in the Watchet area. The bed is generally not richly fossiliferous, but it is stratigraphically critical as the base of the classic Blue Lias cyclic succession.

Bed W2 — Lower Limestone Cycle 1 (c. 0.2–0.4 m)

Thin, pale grey limestone forming one of the first distinct carbonate ledges above the basal fissile mudstones. Fine-grained and relatively even-bedded, with sparse shell debris and early ammonite occurrences. Represents a brief reduction in clastic input and clearer marine water favouring carbonate accumulation.

Bed W3 — Lower Shale Cycle 1 (c. 0.3–0.8 m)

Dark grey laminated mudstone with pyrite and scattered small shell fragments. Deposited under quieter shelf conditions with higher mud input and lower bottom-water oxygen than the limestone beds above and below.

Bed W4 — Lower Limestone Cycle 2 (c. 0.2–0.5 m)

Fine-grained limestone with small bivalves and early ammonites. This bed continues the rhythmic limestone–mudstone alternation typical of the lower Blue Lias and forms a low ledge on the foreshore in suitable exposures.

Ammonites

Psiloceras ex gr. planorbis

Lower Planorbis Chronozone Fossil Beds

Bed W5 — Whittaker & Green Bed 14 Equivalent Horizon

A fossiliferous shale interval, typically about 5–10 cm thick at the top of a lower Blue Lias cycle, and one of the best constrained beds in the Watchet area. This bed has yielded a distinctive basal Jurassic fauna and is one of the key reference levels for the lower part of the Planorbis Chronozone.

Fossil Content

Psiloceras ex gr. planorbis, Modiolus minimus, Anningella ?, Isocrinus angulatus, a decapod crustacean, rare plant fragments and the echinoid Diademopsis.

Bed W6 — Lower Limestone Cycle 3 (c. 0.3–0.6 m)

Thin to moderate limestone bed overlying the main lower Planorbis shale horizons. Forms a more persistent ledge and commonly preserves shell debris and occasional ammonites, reflecting renewed carbonate production during quieter mud input.

Bed W7 — Whittaker & Green Bed 18 Equivalent Horizon

Another lower Blue Lias fossil-bearing interval within the lower Planorbis Chronozone. Like Bed W5, it is especially important because it ties Watchet directly to the classic lowest Jurassic ammonite framework of west Somerset.

Fossil Content

Psiloceras ex gr. planorbis, small bivalves, echinoid remains including Diademopsis, crinoid material and rare plant fragments.

Interpretation

These lower fossil beds represent the earliest clearly ammonite-bearing marine Jurassic sediments in the Watchet area and are key for correlating the Somerset Blue Lias with the base of the Hettangian elsewhere in Britain.

Middle Blue Lias Cycles (Higher Hettangian)

Bed W8 — Middle Limestone Cycle 1 (c. 0.4–0.8 m)

More massive limestone forming a stronger foreshore ledge. Shell debris is usually more abundant than in the lowest beds, and the limestone–mudstone cyclicity becomes more visually obvious. This part of the sequence records a more established shallow-marine carbonate shelf rhythm.

Bed W9 — Middle Shale Cycle 1 (c. 0.5–1.2 m)

Darker laminated mudstone with occasional pyrite, small shell fragments and thin marly seams. Represents quieter, muddier depositional phases between limestone development.

Bed W10 — Middle Limestone Cycle 2 (c. 0.4–0.9 m)

Flaggy to slightly nodular limestone with more conspicuous fossil content. These beds commonly weather out as ledges and may yield better preserved ammonites and bivalves than the thinner lower limestones.

Ammonites

Schlotheimia spp., with higher Hettangian faunas in the wider Somerset framework passing upward through the Liasicus and Angulata chronozones.

Bed W11 — Middle Shale Cycle 2 (c. 0.6–1.5 m)

Soft grey to dark mudstone forming recessive intervals between the more resistant limestone ledges. Fossils are generally less abundant but may include pyritised shells and small ammonites where freshly exposed.

Bed W12 — Middle Limestone Cycle 3 (c. 0.5–1.0 m)

Persistent limestone bed forming a prominent ledge on the foreshore. The bed records another phase of carbonate accumulation in shallow marine water with reduced siliciclastic input.

Interpretation

This middle part of the Watchet Blue Lias is best treated as higher Hettangian, progressing upward from the lower Planorbis levels toward the classic Schlotheimia-bearing part of the succession represented regionally in Somerset.

Upper Blue Lias Cycles (Latest Hettangian To Lower Sinemurian)

Bed W13 — Upper Limestone Cycle 1 (c. 0.6–1.2 m)

Thicker limestone bed forming a substantial foreshore ledge. These upper limestones are more massive and laterally persistent, indicating well-developed cyclic carbonate deposition across the shelf.

Bed W14 — Upper Shale Cycle 1 (c. 0.8–1.5 m)

Dark mudstone interval with fewer obvious fossils but occasional nodules and shell debris. Represents a quieter depositional pulse between the upper ledge-forming limestones.

Bed W15 — Upper Limestone Cycle 2 (c. 0.6–1.3 m)

Upper limestone with diverse marine fossils, including ammonites and bivalves. This bed belongs to the higher Blue Lias of the Watchet area and reflects stable shallow marine conditions with repeated carbonate accumulation.

Ammonites

Arietites bucklandi, Arnioceras spp. in the wider west Somerset upper Blue Lias framework; nearby Hellwell Bay also yields the nautiloid-rich upper Blue Lias horizon Palmer’s Bed V / Whittaker Bed 228.

Bed W16 — Upper Bituminous Shales / Saurian Shale Equivalent

Bituminous marls and shales near the top of the Blue Lias succession in the broader Watchet–west Somerset framework. These beds may yield fish remains and, regionally, marine reptile material. They represent muddier, more organic-rich conditions near the top of the limestone–shale cyclic sequence.

Total Thickness Of Blue Lias Formation At Watchet: Approximately 20–35 Metres In The Main Collector Breakdown, Within A Much Thicker Regional West Somerset Blue Lias Succession

Depositional Environment

The Watchet Blue Lias records repeated limestone–mudstone cycles in a shallow epicontinental sea. Limestone beds formed during periods of reduced clastic input and clearer water, while shale intervals represent quieter muddier phases with lower oxygen at the seabed. The section is especially important because it lies within the wider west Somerset type area for the earliest Jurassic ammonite succession and close to the Somerset reference framework for the Hettangian and lowest Sinemurian.

Total Thickness Covered Here: Approximately 20–35 Metres

References

Whittaker, A. & Green, G.W. (1983). Geology of the country around Weston-super-Mare.
Paul, C.R.C. & Page, K.N. (2017). Articulated echinoids from the basal Blue Lias Formation near Watchet, Somerset.
Paul, C.R.C. (2018). An unexpected crinoid–cephalopod association from the Blue Lias Formation near Watchet, Somerset.
British Geological Survey and Geological Conservation Review sources for the Blue Anchor–Lilstock coast and west Somerset Blue Lias stratigraphy.

SAFETY

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be used and knowledge of tide times is essential. You can easily be cut off by the tide as the sea always reaches parts of the cliff, especially if walking from the harbour at Watchet or from Blue Anchor. The tide comes in very high at these two locations.

In addition, the foreshore at Watchet is subject to periodic thick mud deposits, which submerge much of the rock platforms and render the foreshore quite dangerous to walk on. Warning signs are posted when relevant at the top of the cliff path.

EQUIPMENT

Most fossils can be found by simply searching along the foreshore, they tend to mostly be found loose amongst the shingle. Occasionally fossils can be found in large blocks, so it is ideal to take a hammer and chisel just in case.

CLEANING AND TREATING

Begin by removing any loose sediment very carefully using a soft toothbrush. Take your time, as many fossils—particularly pyritic specimens—are fragile and easily damaged. Once cleaned, fossils should be desalinated by soaking them in fresh water for at least 24 hours to remove residual salt. After soaking, allow specimens to dry naturally at room temperature. Do not dry them on radiators or other heat sources, as rapid drying can cause cracking or long-term damage.

Once fully dry, we recommend sealing fossils with Paraloid B-72, dissolved in acetone. This is a museum-grade consolidant that is widely available in pre-mixed bottles. Paraloid B-72 is stable, long-lasting, and does not yellow or react chemically over time. Importantly, it is also fully reversible, making it suitable for scientifically important or display-quality specimens.

Some collectors prefer to treat ammonites with artists’ varnish. This is acceptable for common species that are not of scientific importance, as it enhances colour and contrast and can make a specimen really “pop”. However, varnish is not reversible and is therefore not recommended for rarer or research-grade fossils.

DISCUSSIONS

ARTICLES

• Geology Museums of Britain: Folkestone Museum, Kent
• Geology museums of Britain: The Museum of Somerset, Taunton

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