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Some of you may already have heard about the remarkable geological site at Court Farm, Kings Stanley, in Gloucestershire. In 2022, an excavation at the site uncovered an extraordinary collection of fossil fish preserved within a layer of limestone nodules in Lower Jurassic rocks. This year, a second excavation returned to the same location and uncovered even more significant fossils from the same fossil-rich layer. A wide range of geologists and palaeontologists have been involved in assessing the material recovered at the site, including Merlin's stratigrapher Phil Copestake. To find out more about these impressive fossils and learn about Phil's involvement, continue reading.