SELBOURNE,
HANTS.
Following a
lecture on coprolites by Charles Bidwell to the Institute of Surveyors in 1874
a Mr. E.P. Squarey, commented that,
”The distribution of these
wonderful minerals was much wider than was commonly supposed. In cutting some
drains, he had recently discovered small quantities of coprolites on an estate
which he purchased of Mr. BEADEL some years since, at the edge of the greensand
in Hampshire, near Selbourne, and now the property of
the Lord Chancellor. They were small, but very like those from the
Cambridgeshire beds, and, he believed, of the same character.” Bidwell,C. Proc.Institue of Surveyors,April
27th 1874,p.317