Fossils from the UK
Featuring hundreds of fossil collecting locations, geological guides, and advice. Welcome to our fossil hunters community.
Fossils, rocks and minerals can be found easily with a little patience and the knowledge of where to look and what to find. The UK Fossils network covers a large number of locations that are suitable for fossil collecting, complete with what fossils you can find, thousands of geological and fossil photos, access rights and helpful hints and tips.
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UK Fossils also features a comprehensive geological ' timeline', covering detailed stratigraphy of all periods. We have a ' glossary' of terms, directory of societies, tide times and other useful resources.
Our events diary has a list of what's going on in your area, and you can keep up-to-date with the latest news
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Locations by county: Avon, Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Cleveland and Durham, Derbyshire, Dorset, Devon, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cumbria, East Riding, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, London, Norfolk, N. Scotland, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Sussex, N. Yorkshire, SW. Wales, S. Wales.Midland Valley/Grampian, South Scotland, Skye
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Please follow our national fossil collecting code
A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006
All recent finds 'emailed to us' get
displayed under our 'recent finds' page. |
Micraster found at East Runton by Ruth Digby on 27/10/08 |
Shrimp burrow found by James Digby at Hunstanton 13/4/09 |
Brachiopod found by Ruth Digby at Hunstanton 13/4/09 |
Gastropods and bivalve, found by Jared Digby (11) at Bracklesham Bay 4/5/09 |
Fossil fruit found by Joel digby (10) at Bracklesham bay on 17/4/09 |
Croc Scute from Taddiford Gap nr Milford on Sea. John Simper, May 2009 |
Turle from Taddiford Gap nr Milford on Sea. (Trionyx) shell and bone. John Simper, May 2009 |
C. hastalis fossil shark tooth, Andrew Marsh |
A thousand Isle of Wight fossils given to the local museum - A local fossil hunter from the Isle of Wight has given 1,000 of his fossils to the Dinosaur Isle Museum, Andy Yule has spent his life collecting ......[more]
The worlds longest snake discovered in Colombia - Fossilised remains, belonging to the world’s largest snake, have been found in the rainforest of north-east Colombia. The snake would have been a......[more]
New technique to age rocks, by recovering rare micro minerals - A new technique can now be used to date very early rocks. This should shed more light on how the Earth's continents were arranged 2.5 billion yea......[more]
New research into the acanthodian fish group - During the 1940s, a fossil fish was unearthed in Herefordshire (Ptomacanthus anglicus). The extinct species was placed within a group of fish kno......[more]
Fossil forest finally on display at Wrexham County Borough Museum - In 2003, a 300m-year-old fossilised tropical forest was discovered, during overcast mining works, on the site of an old steelworks near Wrexham. ......[more]
Fossil fish from Australia is a clue to origin of sex - A remarkable discovery has been made in Australia of a 365 million-year-old fossil fish (Upper Devonian) containing a 5cm-long embryo. Researcher......[more]
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The word Fossil used to be defined as ‘something dug up’. Now-a-days it generally means ‘The remains or trace evidence of prehistoric life’. The study of fossils is called palaeontology; someone who collects and studies them is called a palaeontologist. Fossils can be as tiny as a grain of pollen or a seed or as huge as a limb bone from a giant dinosaur. For animal or plant remains to have become ‘fossilised ‘, they must go through a certain process that preserves them for up to millions of years after they have died.
Fossils abroad -
We have just started adding the first of a few fossil locations outside the UK. The first is for Elafonissi, Crete
Discuss Fossils -
Visit our active discussion board, its a community of its own! Discuss Fossils can help you learn and read about locations to hunt and even identify your own finds. Regular experts visit the forum to help answer some of the questions raised by members. This is also a great place to meet people also interested in collecting fossils.
Most Popular Fossil Locations: Charmouth Fossils , Whitby, Bracklesham, Burton Bradstock, Quantoxhead, Abbey Wood, Kettleness, Eastbourne, Hastings,Hope, Staithes, Whitehaven, Aberlady, Aust, Hunstanton, Fairlight, Seatown, Seven Sisters
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