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Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Speeton
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The Highly productive Speeton Clay yields everything from ammonites, fish, shells to Crustaceans. Similar to the famous Folkestone Beds. Speeton is an excellent location for all the family but can be very sticky in winter months.

Speeton - North Yorkshire
Last updated: [12/04/07] last visited 1994

Cretaceous

Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Speeton) - 1994

Location Information

Speeton yields excellent ammonite specimens and belemnites. However, shrimps and even reptile remains can all be found.

(Suitable for Children)

This location is suitable for children

Access to Speeton is fairly quick and easy, with parking facilities. It is a short walk to the shore.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils can be found on the foreshore especially after storms or scouring conditions, but fossils are also commonly found in the cliff and scree slopes.

ACCESS
RIGHTS

There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted.

The Speeton Clay can be very sticky and you should take care not to get stuck in the clay.

Other Locations similar to Speeton

If you enjoy Speeton, you could also try Folkestone in Yorkshire which has very similar fossils to Speeton. Other locations with Gault Clay are; Charmouth; Golden Cap (Seatown) ; Thorncombe Beacon ; Eastbourne ; Yaverland ; Rocken End

For other locations with the 'Red Chalk', try Hunstanton which is also of a very similar age to the Speeton Clay.

Stone Tumblers (Lapidary)

Microscopes

Test Sieves for Particle Analysis

Stone Tumblers are used for tumbling and polishing rough rock, stones and pebbles including those found on the beach and glass.

Whilst collecting fossils, on those days where you come back empty handed, you could collect rocks, stones and glass from the beach and tumble then at home.

These are all high quality machines to give a professional finish to your samples. The tumblers can be used with a variety of grits, most commonly Silicon Carbide Grit and Cerium Oxide. We have a wide range of rough rocks for sale too.

Microfossils are much easier to collect because they are so small that the vast majority of collections only concentrate on large finds. These small finds can simply be found by taking small samples of sands, crags, clays and soft rocks and examining them under a microscope.

We have a wide range of microscopes for sale, both for the study of fossils, but also educational and professional for use in the laboratory. We have Stereo microscopes, Compound Microscopes, Polarising Microscopes and Monocular Microscopes.

We have thousands of Test Sieves for Particle Analysis.

Endecotts Sieves: For accurate dependable results you can't buy a better test sieve than Endecotts. At every stage of manufacture each test sieve is individually inspected.

High Precision Tecan manufactures precision apertures as small as 3 microns for a wide array of applications such as filtering, sieving and nozzles. Its high-performance, ASTM/ISO compliant test sieves satisfy the most demanding fine particle grading requirements.

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Speeton Your Yorkshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Speeton
Your Yorkshire Geological Guide and Geology Info