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Burnham-on-Crouch has yielded an incredible variety of fossils, you just never know what you may find. Various sharks species (teeth and vertebrae most common), crabs, seeds, fish remains (including ray teeth), and much more.


Walton-on-the-Naze is Famous for yielding fossil bird remains, large sharks teeth and plant remains from the London Clay, whilst boasting the best coastal location for collecting Red Crag fossils in the UK. A unpredictable location of variety.


What looks like a flat beach behind a concrete sea wall actually yields plenty of Sharks and fish teeth, plant remains and much more. People have been collecting here for years. This location is subject to beach conditions.


The most productive location for Lobster fragments, found in small yellow nodules, this small location with its tiny cliffs can bring some nice surprises. Sharks teeth and fish remains can also be found. There are several species of lobster to be collected. UK Fossils first public event.


Along the Wrabness shores, after scouring tides or stormy seas fossils are washed up from both the Quaternary age, bones of Deer, horse and Whale found and from the Pleistocene, Beetles, turtle, shells, shark and fish teeth within cement stones. Its a case of you have to be here at the right time.




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.

 

Essex


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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Fossil Plants of the London Clay

Over 250 species of the rich and diverse flora of the London Clay are illustrated. Written by Margaret E. Collinson. 242 text-figs, 1983 Particularly suited for London Clay locations such as Sheppey, Maylandsea, Burnham on Crouch.

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