Fossil Collecting in Bedfordshire, Geological Location Guides

Fossil Hunting in Bedfordshire

There are not many sites in Bedfordshire to visit, the one we feature on UKF, is this disused quarry Houghton Quarry. It is a Cretaceous site, with plenty of fresh faces and boulders for collecting fossils from.

Houghton Quarry

Houghton Quarry is an abandoned Quarry formerly used to extract chalk for a cement works on site. Quarrying stopped about 40 years ago but only parts are overgrown, leaving an enormous amount of clean chalk and a good amount as boulders on the quarry floor.

Cliff	Fossils collected direct from cliff face
Foreshore	Fossils collected from the foreshore
Cliff/Foreshore	Fossils collected from the cliff and foreshore
Quarry	Location is a quarry or pit
Stream	Fossils collected from a stream or river bed,
Field	Fossils collected from a farm field
Cutting	Fossils collected from road or railway cutting.
Scree Slope	Fossils collected from hill or mountain scree slope.
Rock Outcrop	Fossils collected from rock outcrops.
Lake / Reservoir	Fossils collected from lake or reservoir banks.
Microfossils	Samples taken back for processing microfossils.

	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

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