(Achanarras Quarry has plenty to look through) - 2003

Patience is require at this quarry, it is not as productive as it used to be, years of collecting has caused this which is while there are limits on the number of specimens you can collect. It difficult part is there are only two thin zones in many meters of the Achanarras beds that contain fish, the difficulty is trying to find the correct colour, there are many different coloured slate slabs here. You need to look at the side of the slabs for very fine layed yellow and blue alternating bands, these are very close together and no more than 2mm thick between layers. Use the Fossil Pics page as a colour guide. Some bluish slabs contain a thick quartz layer between the sides of the slabs rather than layers, these contain fish fragments but no whole fish. The slabs are easy to split, it is best to experiment splitting a wide range and then using any finds as a template guide for the correct colour. Often if you split a slab to find a fish, other fish will also be in the same slab, plus the fish splits on two sides, you you also get at least two specimens for one split.

(Achanarras Quarry) - 2003