Wrens Nest
Dudley, West Midlands, UK
The Wrens Nest nature reserve is a limestone outcrop near to Dudley, which is a national nature reserve and a scheduled ancient monument.
It is an important area for the conservation of birds, bats, and rare flora.
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The Wrens Nest is world famous for the tremendous variety of Silurian coral reef fossils found there, over 700 to date. The most famous of which is ‘Calymene blumenbachii’, a trilobite which became known as the ‘Dudley bug’ to quarrymen working the site in the 18th century.
The site is an ancient seabed from the Wenlock group, formed 420-425 million years ago.
Visiting the site and collecting is allowed, however, fossils should only be collected from the loose material and scree on the floor – please do not use a hammer or any tools on bedrock or rock faces.
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