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

Swanage Swanage () is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns, approximately south of Poole and east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the civil ...

, on the Isle of Purbeck in

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. It has been a renowned site for Lower Cretaceous fossils since the initial discovery of fragments there by

Samuel 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 trackw ...

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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