Durlston Bay (also known as Durdlestone Bay) is a small bay next to a country park of the same name, just south of the resort of

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, on the

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. It has been a renowned site for Lower Cretaceous fossils since the initial discovery of fragments there by Samuel Beckles in the 1850s.Durlston Bay page on the Jurassic Coast website

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Durlston Bay; Introduction and Upper Purbeck: Geology of the Wessex Coast
by I. M. West, 2005. Isle of Purbeck Bays of Dorset Beaches of Dorset Jurassic Coast Swanage {{Dorset-geo-stub

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