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Abbey Wood’s highly Fossilferious shell beds, ideal for wet sieving. These beds are extremely rich in fossil sharks teeth, mamm…

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Abereiddy can yield a wide range of fossils, but finding the right zones can be difficult. There is also a small quarry on the …

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A quiet peaceful location where fantastic bryozoans can be seen in carboniferous rocks. You can also find many slabs of ’Trilob…

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Achanarras, once the quarry that was constantly yielding complete fish has been disused for many years, now over collected but …

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Rich Inland Red Crag Pit, a vast variety of shells along with Sharks Teeth and Rays. An excellent location for any keen crag co…

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The volcanic rocks at Aldons Quarry, contain a variety of Ordovician fossils, including trilobites, brachiopods, bivalves, ceph…

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A famous but now over-collected location, once yielding a rich variety of plant remains in the coal measures. It can be hard to…

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Some excellent Carboniferous plant fossils can be found at Anstruther if you can find the right type of rock and if you have th…

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Ardwell Bay, South of Girvan is the best coastal location around Girvan for finding fossils. Graptolites are the most common fi…

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The Famous Red and White cliffs that can be seen when crossing the river Severn contain a highly productive bone bearing bed at…

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A Jurassic Fault along the Balintore foreshore is well exposed, Oysters are quite common here, but belemnites can also be found…

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Spectacular bedding packed with corals can be seen at Barns Ness. This is a fantastic location for corals although they are not…

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The hill of Barrow has a range of various types of chlorite-rich Quartz, some of these can be very hard. Other minerals can be …

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The Barton Clay at Barton on Sea is famous for its hundreds of different species of shells. The beds are also rich in shark tee…

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It has only been in recent years that Bawdsey is once again being washed out by the sea, but this time it is a small cliff Nort…

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The chalk at Beachy Head can contain some lovely fossils, unfortunately cliff falls are not that common and the chalk on the fo…

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Skye houses a complete sequence of 400m of the Jurassic history. The entire coast from portree to staffin is fossiliferous Jura…

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The Chalk at Beer is very hard unless you are lucky enough to find boulders from the softer top beds on the foreshore. There ar…

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Bembridge is a peaceful location, with small low cliffs that yield a range of different brachiopods and bivalves. This is an id…

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This small quarry along the B3395 near Bembridge yields Sponges and fish remains. There is lots of clean faces and scree to loo…

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Infrequent Cambrian fossils can be observed on the surfaces of dolomitic limestone boulders at the base of Ben Suardal. They ar…

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The Glacial Pebble Beds at Benacre yield a range of derived fossils including echinoid’s, sponges, shells and belemnites. At th…

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Besom Hill at first sight can seem fairly poor for fossils, but if you can find the thin ‘Marine Bed’, you will be sure you cha…

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In Bessingby disused quarry, you can find, ammonites, Echinoids, belemnites, Sponges and shells. Many scaphitesoccur in the hig…

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A beautiful location, surrounded by luscious, green rolling countryside; Betton Dingle offers trilobite fossils, a pleasant wal…

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A famous location since the storms of November 2000 unearthed dinosaur track ways exposed on the foreshore. Other finds during …

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Birchington is generally a poorly fossiliferous location but with patience some specimens can be collected. Finds include Echin…

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Whilst most people remember Blackgang Chine for its popular theme park, the cliffs of Blackgang Chine which are slowly shrinkin…

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A change from the Jurassic, try Blue Anchor. The Triassic cliffs here contain a bone bed from the Rhaetian Penarth series. This…

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Boggle Hole is to the southern end of Robin Hoods Bay and is a site of special scientific interest. Foreshore exposures of Sili…

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Sometimes Bognor can be a stoney beach, the next a long golden sandy coastline and during scouring tides it can be a muddy heav…

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The Oxford Clay at Bowleaze Cove yields ammonites and is rich in reptile remains. The Giant fossil Oyster shells are also plent…

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There is nearly always people collecting at Bracklesham Bay. Fossils can simply be picked out washed up on top of the sand, you…

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Brighstone Bay is famous for the partial Sauropod Skeleton found by Portsmouth University. Reptile and Dinosaur remains are oft…

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Brook Bay is popular for finding dinosaur fragments along the shores. Here, many rolled fragments get caught up in the shingle …

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The Coralline Crag at Broom Pit, is extremely fossiliferious. It is rich in a wide variety of molluscs and bryozoans. You will …

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At Brora, Jurassic rocks are deposited from further upstream. These rocks lay around the mouth of the river and along the beach…

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The tall Jurassic cliffs along the Brora River yield ammonites and belemnites. You will need wellington boots as the river runs…

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At the mouth of the River Exe, Budleigh Salterton is famous for the Pebble Beds that yield large numbers of shells when split. …

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There are three sites at Burley Hill, giving opportunity to collect carboniferous corals and brachiopods from a small cutting, …

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Burnham-on-Crouch has yielded an incredible variety of fossils, you just never know what you may find. Various sharks species (…

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Locals wait months for ‘Burton to fall’, and when she does, her rich ammonite beds yield superb finds, bags to bring home. Clif…

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The scenery of the coast north of Caim is beautiful. Moreover, excellent coral fossils can be observed in situ and found as wav…

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The Caistor St Edmund quarry in Norfolk is particularly good for fish remains which can be found in the lower beds. Echinoids, …

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This recently cleared pit at Capel Green provides an excellent opportunity to collect Red Crag Shells. It is next to the road, …

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Castleton Has Long Been Known For Its Carboniferous Limestone, Its Caves And For The Blue John Semi-Precious Stone Mined Here. …

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Cayton yields ammonites and some superb Gastropods, Bivalves and Brachiopods from the Oxford Clay. These are best found on extr…

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Chapmans Pool is rich in ammonites, reptiles and shells, it is a very long walk down to the beach, but the fossils are often re…

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Charmouth, World Heritage Site is one of the most famous and most popular Jurassic Locations in the world, yielding plenty of f…

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Similar zones to the Lias of Church Cliffs, the formation continues at Chippel Bay. Ammonites and reptile remains can be found …