According to the BBC report:
The exact location of the find is not being revealed, as Dorset County Council does not want to encourage people to head to the spot. The area is unstable and prone to rock falls and landslides. Richard Edmonds, Dorset County Council's earth science manager for the Jurassic Coast, said: "This part of the coastline is eroding really rapidly and that means the fossils that are trapped and buried are constantly tumbling out on to the beach."
-- and anyone who knows anything at all about the Jurassic Coast will recognise this immediately as a description of the stretch of blue lias cliff between Lyme Regis and Charmouth, and not be deterred at all.
That aside, it is really rather irritating that the fossil is reported to be going to the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester rather than the Philpot Museum in Lyme Regis itself, where it would have made a fitting companion to Mary Anning's ichthyosaur.
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