“…Peake's (2002) plea arose in part from his view that there is a risk that this valuable resource, especially the older material (much of it compiled by amateur geologists, as by Peake himself), would be 'consigned to historical junk-bins'. In reality, BGS chalk surveyors make full use of existing biostratigraphical records of any vintage (Woods, 2015;Woods et al, 2002), as well as routinely commissioning new macrofossil and microfossil determinations, such as those cited in this paper (Woods, 1994(Woods, , 1995a(Woods, , 1995b(Woods, , 1997. Although many of the old chalk pits recorded in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries are now degraded or infilled, BGS surveying has yielded a huge amount of new biostratigraphical and lithological data from field brash, animal burrow spoil, and from relatively modern exposures, commonly at far greater densities than found by any of the earlier surveyors.…”