The Barton Clay is famous for its hundreds of different species of shells. The beds are also rich in shark teeth, fish and mammal remains. Sharks teeth at Barton can be picked up from the foreshore making this location ideal for all the family.

Latchmoor Brook is one of the only places where you can collect fossils from the New Forest. They are the uppermost Bracklesham Group sediments and the lowermost Barton Clay. The stream and banks are very shallow which makes collecting here far easier than other stream based locations. Gastropods, bivalves and fish remains are common here.

Taddiford Gap is a classic site, well documented for mammal and crocodile remains. Shark and fish remains along with a wide range of microfossils can also be found. These are found by sieving from the Crocodile or Mammal beds. There is also a black seed bed with a huge variety of fossils seeds.

Fossiliferious separian nodules of Bracklesham age are washed onto the shore from off shore Deposits. Both Lepe and Chilling Cliff can occasionally yield fossil molluscs but the best deposits are those from below beach level and are full of brachiopods, and other molluscs. Pleistocene remains can be found washed from the gravel beds.

Milford-on-Sea provides an excellent opportunity to collect a wide range of fossil seeds from the Headon Hill Formation. The seeds are in very good condition but you will need to take samples home for processing using a sieve. Ironstones can also be found with molluscs.

Fossiliferious separian nodules of Bracklesham age are washed onto the shore from off shore Deposits. Both Brownwich Cliff and Chilling Cliff can occasionally yield fossil molluscs but the best deposits are those from below beach level and are full of brachiopods, and other molluscs. Pleistocene remains can be found washed from the gravel beds.

At Beckton Bunny, the continuation of the Barton Beds yield molluscs of brachiopods, gastropods and bivalves. However, the shells are far more sporadic than Barton-on-Sea, and tend often to be of broken shells. During scouring, exposure of the Chama beds yields the best specimens.