Fossil Collecting in Northumberland, Geological Location Guides

Beadnell

Blocks of shale packed with Carboniferous brachiopods and more can be collected at Beadnell. The location is a great one to explore, with excellent access and also suitable for children.

Northumberland

	Fossils are common
	Fossils often found
	Fossils are not common
	Fossils rarely found
	Site protected, no collecting permitted, or no access to beach

	Quaternary Neogene Palaeogene
	Cretaceous Jurassic Triassic
	Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian / Pre Cambrian

	Fossils collected direct from cliff face
	Fossils collected from the foreshore
	Fossils collected from the cliff and foreshore
	Location is a quarry or pit
	Fossils collected from a stream or river bed,
	Fossils collected from a farm field
	Fossils collected from road or railway cutting.
	Fossils collected from hill or mountain scree slope.
	Fossils collected from rock outcrops.
	Fossils collected from lake or reservoir banks.
	Samples taken back for processing microfossils.

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