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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…
Abereiddy can yield a wide range of fossils, but finding the right zones can be difficult. There is also a small quarry on the …
A quiet peaceful location where fantastic bryozoans can be seen in carboniferous rocks. You can also find many slabs of ’Trilob…
Achanarras, once the quarry that was constantly yielding complete fish has been disused for many years, now over collected but …
Rich Inland Red Crag Pit, a vast variety of shells along with Sharks Teeth and Rays. An excellent location for any keen crag co…
The volcanic rocks at Aldons Quarry, contain a variety of Ordovician fossils, including trilobites, brachiopods, bivalves, ceph…
A famous but now over-collected location, once yielding a rich variety of plant remains in the coal measures. It can be hard to…
Some excellent Carboniferous plant fossils can be found at Anstruther if you can find the right type of rock and if you have th…
Ardwell Bay, South of Girvan is the best coastal location around Girvan for finding fossils. Graptolites are the most common fi…
The Famous Red and White cliffs that can be seen when crossing the river Severn contain a highly productive bone bearing bed at…
A Jurassic Fault along the Balintore foreshore is well exposed, Oysters are quite common here, but belemnites can also be found…
Spectacular bedding packed with corals can be seen at Barns Ness. This is a fantastic location for corals although they are not…
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 …
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…
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…
The chalk at Beachy Head can contain some lovely fossils, unfortunately cliff falls are not that common and the chalk on the fo…
Skye houses a complete sequence of 400m of the Jurassic history. The entire coast from portree to staffin is fossiliferous Jura…
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…
Bembridge is a peaceful location, with small low cliffs that yield a range of different brachiopods and bivalves. This is an id…
This small quarry along the B3395 near Bembridge yields Sponges and fish remains. There is lots of clean faces and scree to loo…
Infrequent Cambrian fossils can be observed on the surfaces of dolomitic limestone boulders at the base of Ben Suardal. They ar…
The Glacial Pebble Beds at Benacre yield a range of derived fossils including echinoid’s, sponges, shells and belemnites. At th…
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…
In Bessingby disused quarry, you can find, ammonites, Echinoids, belemnites, Sponges and shells. Many scaphitesoccur in the hig…
A beautiful location, surrounded by luscious, green rolling countryside; Betton Dingle offers trilobite fossils, a pleasant wal…
A famous location since the storms of November 2000 unearthed dinosaur track ways exposed on the foreshore. Other finds during …
Birchington is generally a poorly fossiliferous location but with patience some specimens can be collected. Finds include Echin…
Whilst most people remember Blackgang Chine for its popular theme park, the cliffs of Blackgang Chine which are slowly shrinkin…
A change from the Jurassic, try Blue Anchor. The Triassic cliffs here contain a bone bed from the Rhaetian Penarth series. This…
Boggle Hole is to the southern end of Robin Hoods Bay and is a site of special scientific interest. Foreshore exposures of Sili…
Sometimes Bognor can be a stoney beach, the next a long golden sandy coastline and during scouring tides it can be a muddy heav…
The Oxford Clay at Bowleaze Cove yields ammonites and is rich in reptile remains. The Giant fossil Oyster shells are also plent…
There is nearly always people collecting at Bracklesham Bay. Fossils can simply be picked out washed up on top of the sand, you…
Brighstone Bay is famous for the partial Sauropod Skeleton found by Portsmouth University. Reptile and Dinosaur remains are oft…
Brook Bay is popular for finding dinosaur fragments along the shores. Here, many rolled fragments get caught up in the shingle …
The Coralline Crag at Broom Pit, is extremely fossiliferious. It is rich in a wide variety of molluscs and bryozoans. You will …
At Brora, Jurassic rocks are deposited from further upstream. These rocks lay around the mouth of the river and along the beach…
The tall Jurassic cliffs along the Brora River yield ammonites and belemnites. You will need wellington boots as the river runs…
At the mouth of the River Exe, Budleigh Salterton is famous for the Pebble Beds that yield large numbers of shells when split. …
There are three sites at Burley Hill, giving opportunity to collect carboniferous corals and brachiopods from a small cutting, …
Burnham-on-Crouch has yielded an incredible variety of fossils, you just never know what you may find. Various sharks species (…
Locals wait months for ‘Burton to fall’, and when she does, her rich ammonite beds yield superb finds, bags to bring home. Clif…
The scenery of the coast north of Caim is beautiful. Moreover, excellent coral fossils can be observed in situ and found as wav…
The Caistor St Edmund quarry in Norfolk is particularly good for fish remains which can be found in the lower beds. Echinoids, …
This recently cleared pit at Capel Green provides an excellent opportunity to collect Red Crag Shells. It is next to the road, …
Castleton Has Long Been Known For Its Carboniferous Limestone, Its Caves And For The Blue John Semi-Precious Stone Mined Here. …
Cayton yields ammonites and some superb Gastropods, Bivalves and Brachiopods from the Oxford Clay. These are best found on extr…
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…
Charmouth, World Heritage Site is one of the most famous and most popular Jurassic Locations in the world, yielding plenty of f…
Similar zones to the Lias of Church Cliffs, the formation continues at Chippel Bay. Ammonites and reptile remains can be found …