Copyright ©2024 Fleet Study Group
The villages of Portesham and Abbotsbury celebrated their millennium in 2024. To jointly celebrate this and the fifty years of the Fleet Study Group, the Fleet Study Group put on an evening of presentations and posters in Portesham Village Hall. The title was:
Chesil Beach and the Fleet: the last 1000 years
The meeting was held on the 15th November 2024 starting at 7:30pm. Approximately 90 people attended. The evening consisted of five presentations, a number of posters and a number of displays of items from the area. Portesham WI did an excellent job of providing refreshments.
Most of the posters and presentations are now available to download. Those available have their title highlighted. Click on a highlighted title to download the poster or presentation as a PDF document.
Pictures from the evening can be viewed here.
The presentations were:
Ed Harland
Ed Harland
Charles Wheeler
Don Moxom
Jonathan Cox
Ed Harland
Ed Harland
Don Moxom
Charles Wheeler & Angela Thomas
Ed Harland
Ed Harland
Gordon Le Pard
Lin Baldock
Jon Bass
Gordon Le Pard
Stephen Feist & John Dadds
Don Moxom
Steve Groves & Charles Wheeler
David Carter
* These posters were originally produced for the symposium at our 100th meeting in November 2010
The displays were:
Geology of the Fleet
Abbotsbury Swannery
Fishing artefacts
Fossils, tar pebbles, dolphin bones
Alan Holiday
Charles Wheeler
Ed Harland and Jonathan Cox
Ed Harland and Jonathan Cox
©2024 Please note that all of the authors assert their ownership of the copyright of this material unless indicated otherwise. This material is made available for personal use only. If you wish to make use of the documents presented here, or any of their contents, for educational or other non-profit use please seek permission from the respective author.
Tar pebbles date from the 1980’s when tankers often discharged oil at sea. The solidified oil has plastic fragments embedded in it. Many examples can be seen along the old storm strandline at Ferrybridge.
Litter collected from a 5 metre wide swath across Chesil Beach near the Moonfleet Hotel in a six year period.
