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A geological map of Mere showing the Mere Fault where chalk meets clay. From this fault line many springs occur and Mere is well supplied with water.
A fossil ammonite found on the west side of Long Hill, Mere.
A piece of a chert pavement found at Broadmead Farm, W.Knoyle, near Mere.
Fossil ammonite, Schloenbachia varians, from Dead Maid quarry (now the Quarry Industrial Site).
A fossil sponge enclosed in a flint nodule found in allotments in North Road, Mere.
A fossilised centrum of a vertebra of an ichthyosaur, found at Edgebridge, Mere in 1986.
A fossil shell, merklina aspera, found near W.Swainsford Farm, Mere, in 1993.
A fossil shell, micraster sp., a sea urchin, found near W.Swainsford Farm, Mere, in 1993.
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