Today we remember
#MaryAnning
- one of the most celebrated fossil hunters in the UK. Her pioneering work was undertaken around the
#JurassicCoast
in Dorset, where she found, amongst many others, ichthyosaur, pterosaur and plesiosaur fossils.
BGS Conservator, Simon Harris, has examined a letter sent by Anning in 1822, and explains what it can tell us about her life and remarkable work at the time: