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Our local Limestone (grey coloured) was much used for building (the station and the Boat Museum), but also The Jubilee shipped to many places on the to be burnt to make Lime. The fossil shells tell us that it was Geological Wall The Jubilee formed in the Sea. The West Cliff Red Marls are rich in seams and lenses of the white mineral, I Ammonite I Watchet Station Geological Wall Alabaster. This was shipped to Bristol to make Plaster of Paris for ornaments and quickset cement. All garden rockeries in Watchet have lumps of alabaster.

Slate from quarries at in the was shipped from Watchet to many places, / including Wales from the 14th century up to 1924.

Iron Ore from the Brendon Hills came down the Mineral Line to Watchet West Quay, to be shipped to the ironworks. The Wall Red Sandstone is one of The wall was built by volunteers from the The Pebble Mosaic the important building stones of Watchet and was Seahorse Centre in , advised by Dr. Eric sent out by railway (look at the chapel on Harbour Road Members of Robinson. Seahorse is a Social Services Day opposite the Wall). the Seahorse Centre Team Centre for Adults with Learning Difficulties. Bath Stone (yellow) was brought by BruneI's railway working on the Wall Dr. Eric Robinson in senior lecturer in Geology at after 1862 (again in the chapel). University College London and Honorary Vice Pebble Mosaic is a tradition in Watchet (see the The coast at Watchet offers very good outcrops of pavement in the Library illustrating the life of St President of the Royal Archeological Institute. Limestones a Id Shales:

Large Local Vein Quartz Limestones with bricks white calcite veins Brendon Hills Iron Ore

Limestone with burrows

Treborough 11J,.•• ~:""'"'t-..r-"""''';;.,;'••••• IIC""'~::::III!~-- "~t----slate

.) Lias limestone __ ~~~~~~~b~~~~~~ with fossils ..,..--,..;:::.. Red sandstone

Black Mendip limestone Alabaster I ••. Jurassic: c. 190 million years ago ~ (Coast protection) [!riaSSiC: c. 220 million years ago --I.~ I