There are similar zones at Monmouth Beach to those found in the Lias of Church Cliffs. Ammonites, bivalves and reptile remains can be found on the foreshore but collecting is always at its best after a good scour and stormy weather.
DIRECTIONS
♦ From Charmouth, drive on the A3052 (Charmouth Road) to Lyme Regis. Drive through the town, climbing a very steep hill (Pound Road) and then veering to the left, as you exit the town centre.
♦ Whilst climbing the hill and near the top, you will see a signpost to Monmouth Beach on the left. Take this left hand turn into Cobb Road. Descend towards Monmouth Beach.
♦ There is a very large car park at the bottom of the hill. This is one operated by Lyme Reis Town Council and is certainly the most expensive! From here, you can walk to Chippel Bay (Monmouth Beach).
♦ Car park postcode: TA5 1EJ: Google Maps
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PROFILE INFO
FIND FREQUENCY: ♦♦♦ – Monmouth Beach is famous for its highly fossiliferous cliffs. However, unlike Charmouth and Lyme Regis, successful collecting here relies more on getting the right tidal and beach conditions.
CHILDREN: ♦♦♦♦ – This site is recommended for children. The whole family can sit on the beach, walk along the foreshore or pick up ammonites and other fossils.
ACCESS: ♦♦♦♦ – The car park is very close by and has toilets and a cafe. Access onto Monmouth Beach is easy, with a relatively short walk across sand but the terrain gets more rocky and might not suit those with walking difficulties.
TYPE: – Fossils are mostly seen on the foreshore, but can also be found at the bottom of scree slopes, slippages and occasionally a cliff fall. Hammering the cliff is not permitted because Monmouth Beach is part of the Jurassic World Heritage Coastline and is an SSSI site.
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FOSSIL HUNTING
Bones of ichthyosaurs and other marine reptiles are occasionally recovered from the foreshore, most commonly as small, isolated vertebrae or fragments of limb and rib bone. While not abundant, these remains do appear with some regularity, particularly after periods of strong wave action that scour the beach and remove overlying shingle. Fossils here are typically derived from a bed that lies beneath the modern beach level, meaning they are released naturally by erosion rather than by any direct interaction with the cliffs, which must not be disturbed. Careful searching around the tide line, especially among rock pools, loose boulders and wave-worn slabs, often proves most productive. Alongside reptile material, it is also possible to encounter fish remains such as scales and bone fragments belonging to early ray-finned fish like Dapedium and Pholidophorus.
The hard limestones of the Blue Lias are particularly fossil-rich and yield abundant ammonites, along with occasional large, well-preserved nautiluses. These fossils are often tightly enclosed within the rock and many of the more impressive specimens require careful preparation, commonly using an air abrader, to fully reveal their detail. Complete shells can be spectacular, preserving ribbing, sutures and body chambers in remarkable clarity. In addition to ammonites and nautiloids, the limestone can contain bivalves, gastropods and crinoid fragments, reflecting a diverse Early Jurassic marine ecosystem.
Ammonites and nautiluses from this area can exceed half a metre in diameter, with some of the largest and finest examples originating from Chippel Bay. Access to these fossils is limited by the extreme hardness of the limestone, and productive material is usually only exposed following significant cliff falls. More commonly, the beach is strewn with trace fossils and worn ammonite fragments, particularly species such as Psiloceras and Coroniceras, which are characteristic of the lower Blue Lias. Within the limestone bands themselves, brachiopods such as Calcirhynchia calcareaare relatively common, alongside the distinctive curved oysters Gryphaea arcuata, whose robust shells often survive transport and abrasion.
Between the centre of Chippel Bay and Pinhay Bay, the Fish Bed is well exposed at the base of the cliff and represents one of the most important fossil horizons in the area. This finely laminated shale records periods of low oxygen on the sea floor, allowing delicate remains to be preserved with minimal disturbance. Several horizons here contain fish material, though only one consistently yields near-complete specimens. Elsewhere, the shale is densely packed with disarticulated fish scales and bone fragments, giving a glittering appearance on freshly exposed surfaces. Whole fish remains, when found, may include species such as Dapedium, Pholidophorus and Leptolepis, sometimes preserving outlines of fins and body shape. Flat ammonites and thin-shelled bivalves also occur within these beds, adding to the diversity of the assemblage. Scattered among the shale are occasional nodules and lumps of chert, which can contain their own fossil content, including trace fossils such as burrows and worm tubes, offering further insight into the behaviour of organisms living on and within the Jurassic sea floor.
GEOLOGY
The coastline around Lyme Regis exposes one of the most celebrated geological successions in Britain, with Monmouth Beach to the west of the Cobb and Church Cliffs to the east providing extensive access to the lower Jurassic strata. Across this stretch, the Blue Lias Formation dominates the landscape, extending westward into Pinhay Bay and eastward through Charmouth to Black Ven. These rocks record repeated cycles of sedimentation in a shallow marine environment, producing the characteristic alternation of pale, resistant limestone beds and darker, softer shales. This rhythmic layering is especially striking at Ware Cliffs, where the stepped profile of the cliffs clearly reflects the contrasting resistance of the individual beds to erosion.
Overlying the Blue Lias are younger units that further shape the unstable nature of the cliffs. The Shales-with-Beef Member, part of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation, rests directly above the Blue Lias and is composed mainly of dark, fissile mudstones. These beds are often heavily fractured and include bands of fibrous calcite known as “beef,” formed by mineral growth within the compacting sediments. Above this lies the Black Ven Marl Member, a softer and more clay-rich sequence that readily weathers and contributes to frequent landslides. Material from both of these units commonly appears on the beach as loose blocks, slabs, and debris, transported downslope by repeated cliff collapses. Because of this continual movement, the cliffs in this area are extremely hazardous, and fossil collecting must be restricted to the foreshore well away from the cliff base, where sudden rock falls are common and unpredictable.
The Blue Lias Formation itself forms the lowermost part of the cliffs around Lyme Regis and is also widely exposed on the foreshore, particularly on rocky ledges revealed at low tide. These limestone platforms are an important feature of the coastline, providing direct access to beds that elsewhere remain buried. East of Lyme Regis, Church Cliffs are especially well known for yielding calcified ammonites derived from the Blue Lias limestones, although these fossils are released almost exclusively through natural erosion and cliff falls rather than in situ exposure. The overlying Shales-with-Beef Member is less fossiliferous in appearance, as most shells and skeletons have been flattened by compaction, but it still represents an important part of the sequence, marking a shift toward deeper, muddier conditions. Above this, the Black Ven Marl contains some of the finest fossil material in the region, though at Church Cliffs it is only accessible where landslips have delivered fresh material onto the beach.
At Chippel Bay, the Blue Lias is particularly well exposed and offers a rare opportunity to observe a substantial thickness of the formation in sequence. Following a major landslide, Beds H1 to H9 became visible and, in places, can still be traced along the foreshore and lower cliff. These named beds represent individual limestone and shale units within the Blue Lias and were historically recognised by quarrymen when the foreshore was worked for building stone and cement production. Beneath the prominent Table Ledge, a series of limestone bands leads down to the Fish Bed, a distinctive horizon associated with finely laminated sediments and fossil fish remains. Below this lies the Glass Bottle Bed, a thinner and more elusive unit that is normally hidden beneath beach deposits and is only revealed during periods of extreme scouring. Together, these exposures make the Lyme Regis coastline an exceptional natural laboratory for studying early Jurassic stratigraphy, while also serving as a reminder of the dynamic and often dangerous processes that continue to shape it today.
Shales with Beef and the Black Ven Marls can also be seen above the Blue Lias. The Gault Clay is mostly covered up.
Scattered across the beach are numerous blocks of Lower Cretaceous Upper Greensand of Albian age, easily recognised by their distinctive texture and colour. These rocks were originally deposited in shallow marine conditions and are commonly associated here with large, resistant blocks of chert. The chert often preserves trace fossils, including well-defined worm tubes, along with a variety of heavily worn and reworked fossil fragments that hint at the rich marine life present at the time of deposition. Their durability allows them to survive prolonged transport and abrasion, which explains their abundance on the foreshore compared with the softer surrounding sediments.
At Pinhay, the Cretaceous succession continues with chalk deposits that were formerly divided into Upper, Middle and Lower Chalk, resting unconformably above the much older Lias. Notably, the Lower Cretaceous is absent from this local stratigraphic sequence, marking a significant break in deposition before the onset of chalk formation in the Late Cretaceous. This sharp contrast in age and rock type reflects major changes in sea level and sediment supply over time. Despite the presence of abundant Greensand and chalk blocks on the beach, their source is not immediately obvious when examining the modern cliff line, where such beds appear to be missing altogether.
The explanation lies in the dramatic geomorphological history of the area. The coastline has been profoundly reshaped by a series of large-scale landslides that have transported material from much higher levels downslope and seaward. Many of the Cretaceous blocks found on the beach originated from cliffs that once stood considerably inland, before slope failure caused vast sections of the landscape to slump forward. Around 500 metres inland from the present Lias cliffs, the original, unslipped cliff line can still be identified, with the upper Cretaceous rocks preserved in their original position. These relict cliffs provide clear evidence of the scale of past movement and help to explain the otherwise puzzling presence of younger Cretaceous rocks resting among much older Jurassic strata on the shore.
This is a detailed stratigraphic breakdown of the Lower Jurassic succession at Monmouth Beach and Chippel Bay, Lyme Regis, Dorset. The locality exposes a world-famous section through the Blue Lias Formation, with classic named limestone ledges and shale intervals ranging from the Hettangian up into the lower Sinemurian, and the lower part of the overlying Shales-with-Beef Member visible in the cliffs above.
LIAS GROUP
Blue Lias Formation (Lower Jurassic — Hettangian To Lower Sinemurian)
Structural Setting Of Monmouth Beach And Chippel Bay
Bed CB1 — Chippel Bay Anticline And Foreshore Ledge System
The Blue Lias at Monmouth Beach and Chippel Bay is exposed in a structurally controlled foreshore and cliff section in which the beds rise westward and successively older beds appear toward Seven Rock Point and Pinhay Bay. The Chippel Bay anticline brings lower Hettangian beds close to beach level, while small normal faults locally offset the upper Hettangian and basal Sinemurian ledges. The sequence is famous for its laterally persistent limestone pavements, many of which were named by Lyme quarrymen and used in the classic work of W.D. Lang. These beds were formerly worked for cement and building stone, which is why the local stone-band nomenclature is unusually rich and detailed.
Lower Named Blue Lias Beds
Bed CB2 — Brick Ledge (Lang Bed 1)
Brick Ledge is the lowest named Blue Lias bed visible east of Lyme Regis and is particularly well exposed toward Seven Rock Point and the western side of Chippel Bay. It consists of several thin, closely spaced argillaceous limestone beds broken by numerous joints so that the rock has a distinctive brick-like appearance. It marks the base of the beds historically worked for cement at Lyme Regis and lies within the higher Hettangian part of the Blue Lias, in the Schlotheimia angulata interval. It is a very useful field marker because it is conspicuous, persistent and clearly different from the less obviously named lower Hettangian cementstone cycles below and westward into Pinhay Bay.
Ammonites
Schlotheimia spp. in the broader angulata interval, with early Hettangian faunas continuing downward westward toward Seven Rock Point and Pinhay Bay.
Bed CB3 — Lower Hettangian H-Beds Beneath Brick Ledge
Westward beyond the Chippel Bay anticline, the section passes down into the lower unnamed Hettangian H-beds of Lang’s framework. These are thinner, more argillaceous limestone–mudstone cycles than the upper named ledges higher in the cliff and foreshore. They include the lower half of the Hettangian and continue down toward the base of the Jurassic in the Psiloceras planorbis Zone. At Monmouth Beach itself these beds are not the main collectible ledge sequence, but they are geologically crucial because they demonstrate that the full lower Blue Lias succession is present west of Lyme Regis.
Ammonites
Psiloceras in the lower Hettangian westward, then upward into Schlotheimia faunas in the higher Hettangian.
Upper Hettangian Ledge Sequence
Bed CB4 — Lower Skulls To Upper White Interval
This part of the upper Hettangian Blue Lias comprises a stack of argillaceous limestone ledges and intervening shales, including the traditional quarrymen’s names Lower Skulls, Upper Skull Shales, Upper White Shales and Upper White. These beds represent repeated limestone–mudstone cycles deposited on a shallow marine shelf under fluctuating oxygenation and sediment input. Many of the limestone bands preserve uncrushed ammonites because they lithified early, while the shales tend to flatten and compact fossils. The ledges are often burrowed, shell-bearing and locally rich in oysters such as Gryphaea arcuata.
Fossil Content
Gryphaea arcuata, small bivalves, ammonites of the higher Hettangian, and shell-rich ledge surfaces showing benthic colonisation.
Bed CB5 — Specketty Shales And Specketty
A shale-and-limestone pair close to the top of the Hettangian succession at Chippel Bay. Specketty is one of the most useful upper Hettangian ledges in the field because it lies immediately below the boundary interval with the Second Mongrel beds. The bed is associated with abundant shell material and contributes to the distinctive stepped ledge topography of the Monmouth Beach foreshore.
Interpretation
Specketty lies very close to the top of the Hettangian, just below the base of the Second Mongrel interval, which is used locally to approximate the Hettangian–Sinemurian boundary.
Bed CB6 — Second Mongrel Shales And Second Mongrel
A shale and limestone pair forming one of the key boundary intervals at Chippel Bay. The base of the Second Mongrel is commonly taken as the most practical local approximation to the Hettangian–Sinemurian boundary in the field. The limestone is more resistant than the underlying shales and forms an obvious ledge that can be followed along the foreshore under favourable tidal conditions.
Boundary Significance
The base of the Second Mongrel is the best practical field guide to the Hettangian–Sinemurian transition in the Chippel Bay cliff and foreshore section.
Basal Sinemurian Bucklandi Sequence
Bed CB7 — Mongrel Shales And Mongrel (Lang Beds 22–23)
The Mongrel is one of the best-known named Blue Lias ledges at Lyme Regis and Chippel Bay. It is a conspicuous limestone ledge associated with the basal Sinemurian and lies only a short distance above the boundary interval. The bed is notable because it is effectively a rhynchonellid-rich horizon, indicating a short-lived phase of well-oxygenated benthic conditions close above bituminous mudstones. The contrast between shelly benthic limestone and nearby darker shales shows how rapidly environmental conditions fluctuated during Blue Lias deposition.
Fossil Content
Rhynchonellid brachiopods, oysters, ammonites and shell-rich ledge surfaces.
Bed CB8 — Top Copper Shales And Top Copper (Lang Beds 24–25)
One of the easiest named beds to identify in the Blue Lias west of Lyme Regis. The Top Copper is a pyrite-rich limestone with a coppery weathering appearance caused by abundant iron sulphide, though there is no true copper mineralisation. Pyrite occurs as nodules and veins aligned along joints, showing that sulphide mineralisation post-dated early lithification. The Top Copper belongs to the basal Sinemurian part of the succession and is a very useful field datum in the Bucklandi sequence.
Bed CB9 — Second Tape Shales And Second Tape (Lang Beds 26–27)
A shale–limestone pair above the Top Copper. These beds are part of the lower Sinemurian arietitid sequence and continue the characteristic Blue Lias alternation of early-lithified limestone ledges and recessive bituminous or marly shales. Gryphaea arcuata is known from both the shales and the limestone in this part of the sequence.
Bed CB10 — Top Tape Shales And Top Tape (Lang Beds 28–29)
The Top Tape is the easiest ammonite bed to find at Chippel Bay. It forms a very conspicuous ledge in the middle of the bay and carries an almost pavement-like concentration of large arietitid ammonites. Early cementation has prevented compaction of many shells, so large ammonites are often preserved in relief within the stone band. This is one of the classic Monmouth Beach fossil horizons and one of the reasons the site is so well known to collectors.
Ammonites
Dominantly Coroniceras (including forms referred to by West as Coroniceras (Metophioceras) aff. conybeari), with other large arietitids on the ledge surface.
Bed CB11 — Third Quick Shales And Third Quick (Lang Beds 30–31)
A well-marked limestone and shale couplet above the Top Tape. The Third Quick is one of the thick “Quick” limestones that give the upper Blue Lias much of its stepped, ledged foreshore appearance. The Third Quick Shales beneath and above it include bituminous shale and marl alternations that are important in Blue Lias cyclostratigraphy. Crinoid ossicles, especially Pentacrinites or Isocrinus, have been recorded from the Third Quick Shales in the Chippel Bay sequence.
Bed CB12 — Gumption Shales And Gumption (Lang Beds 32–33)
The Gumption Shales are unusually thick, about 1.27 m in the classic Chippel Bay sequence, and make this part of the cliff and foreshore particularly easy to identify. The Gumption limestone above continues the thick-ledge style of the upper Blue Lias, and together these beds are among the most useful field markers in the Bucklandi sequence. Bituminous shale and marl cycles are especially obvious here, making the interval important for discussions of Blue Lias cyclicity.
Bed CB13 — Second Quick Shales And Second Quick (Lang Beds 34–35)
Another thick limestone–shale couplet within the lower Sinemurian Blue Lias. The Second Quick forms a strong ledge and, together with the underlying Gumption interval, helps define the upper part of the Bucklandi succession at Monmouth Beach. These beds continue the pattern of argillaceous limestone with abundant marine fossils and softer, more bituminous interbeds.
Fossil Content Through The Bucklandi Sequence
Large arietitid ammonites, especially Coroniceras and allied forms, Gryphaea arcuata, crinoid ossicles, nautiloids and associated marine bivalves. Some ledges preserve unusually complete ammonites because of early cementation.
Higher Sinemurian Blue Lias
Bed CB14 — Best Bed And Overlying Upper Blue Lias Ledges
Higher in the Blue Lias succession the named ledges become less widely used by collectors than the spectacular Bucklandi beds below, but they remain stratigraphically important. Best Bed (Bed 41) is one of the laterally persistent limestone markers recognised west of Lyme Regis, and together with the higher ledges it shows that the upper Blue Lias remained strongly cyclic. These beds are still fossiliferous and continue to yield ammonites, oysters and other marine fossils from the higher Sinemurian part of the sequence.
Bed CB15 — Venty, Top Quick And Glass Bottle Limestones
These upper Blue Lias limestones form prominent ledges in the intertidal zone at Lyme Regis and westward toward Chippel Bay. They belong high in the Blue Lias succession, just below the top of the formation, and are useful markers for the uppermost limestone-shale cycles before the transition into the Charmouth Mudstone facies above. Their ledges are less famous commercially than Top Tape, but they are important stratigraphically because they lead up to Grey Ledge.
Bed CB16 — Grey Ledge (Lang Bed 49)
Grey Ledge is the natural top of the Blue Lias at Lyme Regis and forms one of the key regional marker beds. It is a persistent argillaceous limestone with numerous ammonites and characteristic dark-grey-filled Arenicolites and Diplocraterion burrows. A bioturbated erosion surface caps the bed, and this surface is now taken as the top of the Blue Lias in modern stratigraphical usage. Loose blocks from Chippel Bay and adjacent shore sections have yielded large ammonites such as Paracoroniceras lyra from high in the Blue Lias, around the base of the Semicostatum Biozone.
Ammonites
Higher Sinemurian arietitids including Paracoroniceras lyra, with Arnioceras also present in high Blue Lias blocks from the Chippel Bay area.
Total Thickness Of Blue Lias Formation At Lyme Regis And Chippel Bay: Approximately 26–32 Metres
Charmouth Mudstone Formation (Lower Jurassic — Basal Part Only Visible Above The Blue Lias)
Shales-with-Beef Member (Basal Part)
Bed CB17 — Bioturbated Surface Above Grey Ledge
The top of Grey Ledge is capped by a bioturbated erosion surface that forms the key boundary between the Blue Lias and the overlying mudstone-dominated Charmouth Mudstone Formation. This surface is easy to recognise where exposure is good and marks a significant facies change from ledge-forming limestone–mudstone couplets to darker, more fissile mudstones.
Bed CB18 — Fish Bed
The Fish Bed is one of the most persistent lower Shales-with-Beef marker beds west of Lyme Regis and can be correlated regionally in the highest intertidal and low-cliff exposures beyond Chippel Bay. It is a thin calcareous siltstone/limestone horizon within darker mudstones and is important for correlation because the basal Shales-with-Beef beds vary laterally more than the underlying Blue Lias.
Bed CB19 — Table Ledge
A laterally persistent muddy limestone in the lower Shales-with-Beef Member and one of the four most useful correlation horizons west of Lyme Regis, together with Best Bed, Grey Ledge, Fish Bed and Table Ledge. Table Ledge lies above the Fish Bed and marks the early part of the transition into the darker, beef-bearing mudstone succession that dominates the cliffs higher west of Lyme Regis and toward Black Ven.
Depositional Environment
Monmouth Beach and Chippel Bay record shallow-marine shelf deposition during the earliest Jurassic. The Blue Lias consists of repeated cycles of argillaceous limestone, marl and bituminous shale, reflecting fluctuations in carbonate productivity, clastic input, oxygenation and early cementation. The limestone ledges lithified early and commonly preserve uncrushed ammonites, whereas fossils in the shales are usually flattened. Upward through the section, the succession passes from higher Hettangian ledges into the spectacular basal Sinemurian arietitid beds and then up to the burrowed Grey Ledge at the top of the formation, above which darker mudstones of the Shales-with-Beef Member mark a change to more mud-rich marine sedimentation.
Total Thickness Covered Here: Approximately 30–40 Metres Of Stratigraphy Including The Blue Lias Formation And Basal Shales-with-Beef Member In The Monmouth Beach–Chippel Bay–Seven Rock Point Section
References
Lang, W.D. (1924). The Blue Lias of the Devon and Dorset coasts.
Gallois, R.W. & Paul, C.R.C. (2009). The highest part of the Blue Lias and lowest Shales-with-Beef on the Devon–Dorset coast.
British Lower Jurassic Stratigraphy (GCR volume) for the Lyme Regis coast and Blue Lias framework.
Ian West, Lyme Regis westward field guide and associated Blue Lias bed notes.
British Geological Survey framework sources for the Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone formations.
SAFETY
Common sense when collecting at all locations should be used and prior knowledge of tide times is essential. Care should especially be taken at the headland, where the sea reaches the base of the cliffs at high tide. If you venture past this point, return in good time. Care must also be taken of falling rocks. These are frequent because the alternating hard limestone and shale of the Blue Lias make the cliffs highly unstable and prone to collapse.
EQUIPMENT
Collecting from the soft clays is best done using a pointed tool such as a wood chisel or small file, pick or trowel/small spade. However, it is possible to collect by splitting rocks, especially nodules, so you will also need a good hammer and a chisel, together with safety goggles. Most of the rocks are very hard so sometimes a heavy lump hammer is needed.
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.
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ACCESS RIGHTS
This site is an SSSI and forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Jurassic Coast. This means you can visit the site, but hammering the bedrock is not permitted. For full information about the reasons for the status of the site and restrictions please download the PDF from Natural England – SSSI Information – West Dorset
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