Dinosaurs in Bexhill ... Dave has the evidence

For the last 10 years he has dug up old fossils and bits of dinosaurs to boost the museum s collection and amuse visitors and small children alike.

Of course Dave s job is an enormous help, for who knows what his land excavations will turn up?

Dave s latest find, which he says are mostly from inland, rather than the beach, is an important one.

It is a bit of polacanthus which exactly matches a specimen from London s Natural History Museum.

That s fine enough, but the find proves that a discovery by Dave in 1999 analysed by the NHM as a hyaeosaur, has now been re-diagnosed as part of the same polacanthus.

What is a polacanthus? Well, it is a type of dinosaur which roamed Bexhill 135 million years ago, was 14 to 19-ft long, six-ft wide, six-ft tall and weighed two tons.

Father of two, Dave, says his son Gareth, 15 and daughter Laura, 17, are still enthusiastic about his finds, but less keen to help him with the actual digging, as they did when they were younger.

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