The original gravestone of Mary Anning before it was replaced in 2019. Visitors like to place fossils on the grave instead of flowers in her memory.


The grave of paleontologist Mary Anning who is buried in the churchyard of St Michael the Archangel in Lyme Regis. Visitors to the grave often place a fossil on her grave. Mary Anning is credited with the discovery of the first Ichthyosaurus and first complete plesiosaurs.


Size: 2299px × 3000px
Location: Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK.
Photo credit: © Celia McMahon / Alamy / Afripics
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