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Introduction to North Berwick

Fossils and Scottish Fossil Collecting in North Berwick
South Scotland Geological Guide

The rocks at North Berwick are volcanic tuffs, but small cementstones within a small zone of tuff contains fish remains and 23 species of pteridosperms and lycopods.


North Berwick - South Scotland
Last updated: [18/10/07]  last visited 2007
Carboniferous
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Hastings
(North Berwick, Volcanic Tuffs within the cliff) - 2007


Location Information

At North Berwick, only a small area can yield fossils. Just a few meters of cliff with just a 10cm band running through the volcanic tuff contains cementstones. Once you find the band, it can be quite productive. The problem is the area has been overcollected.

(Not Suitable for families)

This location is not suitable for families as the foreshore is too rocky.

   

A private car park takes you onto the beach and from here it is a short walk. The car park has a road toll.

Cliff

Fossils at North Berwick can be found within the cliff.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted. You can get easily cut off by the tide here. The shore is very rocky so extra care should be taken.

Other areas where you can find fossil fish

Thurso, Queensferry and Achanarras are very good location where complete fish and fish fragments can be found. At Spital Quarry, fish fragments and complete finds can also be made. Fish can also be found at Cromarty, Tarbat Ness, John o' Groats and Eathie

Some of the best fish come from County Durham. where a number of quarries yield some of the best specimens in the UK.

Fish Remains from the Devonian can also be found at Portishead in Avon.

Of course fossil fish can be found at many locations during many periods, such as fish from the Jurassic of Dorset, Cretaceous of Norfolk, Eocene of Essex, Pleistocene Crags of Suffolk, and the Triassic beds from Aust and Blue Ancher along with many others.

Stone Tumblers (Lapidary)


Stone Tumblers are used for tumbling and polishing rough rock, stones and pebbles including those found on the beach and glass.

Whilst collecting fossils, on those days where you come back empty handed, you could collect rocks, stones and glass from the beach and tumble then at home.

These are all high quality machines to give a professional finish to your samples. The tumblers can be used with a variety of grits, most commonly Silicon Carbide Grit and Cerium Oxide. We have a wide range of rough rocks for sale too.

Microfossils are much easier to collect because they are so small that the vast majority of collections only concentrate on large finds. These small finds can simply be found by taking small samples of sands, crags, clays and soft rocks and examining them under a microscope.

We have a wide range of microscopes for sale, both for the study of fossils, but also educational and professional for use in the laboratory. We have Stereo microscopes, Compound Microscopes, Polarising Microscopes and Monocular Microscopes.


We have thousands of Test Sieves for Particle Analysis.

Endecotts Sieves: For accurate dependable results you can't buy a better test sieve than Endecotts. At every stage of manufacture each test sieve is individually inspected.

High Precision Tecan manufactures precision apertures as small as 3 microns for a wide array of applications such as filtering, sieving and nozzles. Its high-performance, ASTM/ISO compliant test sieves satisfy the most demanding fine particle grading requirements.




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