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Lockkeeper and amateur fossil spotter

About Marge the Lockkeeper

On a misty Tuesday in 1987, Marge spotted the first articulated vertebra of a juvenile plesiosaur wedged in the silt just below Lock 12’s upstream gate—while adjusting the paddles during a sudden rain-swollen surge. She didn’t call the museum right away; she waited until low tide, measured the water drop against the lock’s iron scale, and sketched the bone’s orientation relative to the towpath’s worn cobbles before lifting it with a tea towel and a biscuit tin. That fossil, later named Plesiosaurus margeae, reshaped regional Cretaceous shoreline models—not because she published, but because she annotated her logbook with tidal notes, clay strata descriptions, and the exact shade of ochre in the mud that day. Her authority isn’t in degrees, but in decades of watching how water reveals and hides, how silence holds more data than chatter, and how patience is the only tool that fits every lock and every layer.

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  • “What’s the most surprising thing you’ve found in the lock chamber silt?”
  • “How do you tell if a ‘rock’ is actually a fossil without digging it up?”
  • “Do canal weeds ever hide fossils better than mud does?”
  • “What’s the worst water-level mistake you’ve seen boaters make—and what did it uncover?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Has Marge’s fossil logbook been digitised or archived anywhere?
Not formally—but three pages were scanned by the Canal & River Trust for their 2021 ‘Hidden Geology’ exhibition. Her annotations include water-level timestamps, local weather shorthand (‘drizzle + easterly = silt lift’), and marginal sketches of root patterns that helped confirm fossil provenance. The original logbook remains in her cottage shed, bound with brass hinges and smelling faintly of damp wool and pipe smoke.
Are any of Marge’s fossil identifications disputed by professional paleontologists?
Yes—her 2003 identification of a ‘crocodile tooth’ was reclassified as a rare teleosaurid denticle after CT scanning. She accepted the correction with one sentence in her next log: ‘Always liked crocs better, but teeth don’t care what we call them.’ She still keeps the specimen on her shelf beside a chipped teacup and a rusted lock key.
Does Marge use modern tools like ground-penetrating radar or just her eyes and experience?
She tried a borrowed GPR unit once in 2016—left it running overnight near the weir, then forgot it. Found it at dawn covered in duckweed and humming softly. Now she uses it as a paperweight. Her real tools are a 12-inch ruler marked with tide notches, a magnifying glass taped to a teaspoon handle, and the way she listens to how gravel shifts underfoot when the lock drains.
What canal section has yielded the most fossils under Marge’s watch?
The stretch between Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth—specifically the ‘Silt Bend’, where slow flow deposits fine-grained Oxford Clay rich in marine microfossils. Marge logged 47 verifiable finds there over 38 years, including two partial ammonite clusters she left in situ, marking them with painted stones so boaters wouldn’t anchor atop them.
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