Welcome to the Ice Age Coast
The Lewis Penny Collection at Hull University
The collection consists of Holderness erratics (some with thin sections),
sub-fossils shells from Holderness, specimens from source areas and some
archives. It was collected by Lewis Penny (1920-2000), John Catt (1939-2017),
and Patrick Boylan. It was catalogued and dusted by Mike Horne, Rodger Connell
in 2010 and 2012 and details were added to the University's electronic catalogue
in 2019. We may add further specimens to the collection from the 2019 exposure
of the Bridlington Crag and from Holderness gravel pits. A new collection of
type erratics is being formed to complement the Penny Collection.
Photographs of the specimens are available on request and researchers
may arrange to visit the collection.
The collection includes -
•Holderness
erratics
•Some
with thin sections
•Sub-fossil
shells from East Yorkshire
•Bulk
samples from East Yorkshire
•Samples
from source localities of the erratics
•Some
rocks from other Quaternary localities
Click here to view the
catalogue of the Penny Collection
(c) Mike Horne & Hull Geological Society 2020
Copyright Hull Geological Society.