Beach Flints at Studland Bay on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, December 2023.
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I’ve always liked flint, but following the ‘Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water’ I bought the catalogue. In it there’s an essay by Luke Farey on flint. I hadn’t appreciated the complexity of the material and have become a bit obsessed by it. So it’s interesting to see your photos of flint – thank you for posting.
Thank you, Markus, I used to collect flints too but now I just photograph their endless variety. Always a pleasure to walk along this particular stretch of beach.
Thank you for introducing me to beach flints—not stones I’ve ever seen. They are beautiful. And I especially like your photograph #6 for its combined patterns of stones and seaweed.
Hi Jessica
We just did a blog about beachcombing of the beach behind our house. We have lots of flints there as well. We went to the Jurassic coast for fossil hunting and found beautiful ammonites there. Tracy Chevalier’s book ‘Remarkable Creatures’ inspired us to go there.
Keep well
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Sounds like you are all having a great time. Rocks, fossils, fantastic coastline, The pleasure of being out in Nature, and fully appreciating it, never wanes.
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I’ve always liked flint, but following the ‘Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water’ I bought the catalogue. In it there’s an essay by Luke Farey on flint. I hadn’t appreciated the complexity of the material and have become a bit obsessed by it. So it’s interesting to see your photos of flint – thank you for posting.
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I love those Flints. I did paintings of the ones in Sussex. Also photographed many in Studland bay.
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Such amazing manifoldness. Reminds me of my childhood days when I used to collect beach flints. 🪨
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Thank you, Hamish. The origin of flint is intriguing, and the appearance of each nodule is unique. It would have been good to visit the exhibition, Maybe I’ll order a copy of the catalogue. https://kevishouse.com/books/p/sussex-landscape-chalk-wood-and-water
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Thank you, Angela. The flints are so varied. Each one unique, a small work of nature’s art. Broken ones can be fascinating too.
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Thank you, Markus, I used to collect flints too but now I just photograph their endless variety. Always a pleasure to walk along this particular stretch of beach.
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Thank you for introducing me to beach flints—not stones I’ve ever seen. They are beautiful. And I especially like your photograph #6 for its combined patterns of stones and seaweed.
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Thank you, Linda.
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Hi Jessica
We just did a blog about beachcombing of the beach behind our house. We have lots of flints there as well. We went to the Jurassic coast for fossil hunting and found beautiful ammonites there. Tracy Chevalier’s book ‘Remarkable Creatures’ inspired us to go there.
Keep well
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Sounds like you are all having a great time. Rocks, fossils, fantastic coastline, The pleasure of being out in Nature, and fully appreciating it, never wanes.
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