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Samuel Husband Beckles
Samuel Husbands Beckles (12 April 1814, in Barbados – 4 September 1890, in Hastings) was a Bajan/English 19th-century lawyer, turned dinosaur hunter, who collected remains in Sussex and the Isle of Wight. In 1854 he described bird-like trackways that he thought could have been made by dinosaurs, which he later identified as probably those of ''Iguanodon'' in 1862. In 1857, following the discovery of a mammal jaw at Durlston Bay, he directed a major excavation that became known as 'Beckles' Pit', removing five metres of overburden over a 600 square metre area, one of the largest ever scientific excavations. The collection of mammal fossils that resulted is now mainly held at the Natural History Museum. He discovered the small herbivorous dinosaur '' Echinodon''. The only known species ''Echinodon becklesii'', the mammal ''Plagiaulax becklesii'' and the dinosaur '' Becklespinax'' were named in his honour (although the last of these is now known as '' Altispinax''). Early life Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beccles Pit ILN 1857
Beccles ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 road, A145 and A12 road (Great Britain), A12 roads, north-east of London as the crow flies, south-east of Norwich and north-northeast of the county town of Ipswich. Nearby towns include Lowestoft to the east and Great Yarmouth to the north-east. The town lies on the River Waveney on the edge of The Broads, The Broads National Park. It had a population at the 2011 census of 10,123. Worlingham is a suburb of Beccles; the combined population is 13,868. Beccles Town twinning, twinned with Petit-Couronne in France in 1978. History The name is conjectured to be derived from Becc-Liss* (Brittonic=Small-court). However, also offered is Bece-laes* (Old English=Meadow by Stream), as well as a contraction of ''Beata Ecclesia'', the name of the Christian temple erected c. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
