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Introduction to Cloughton Wyke

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Cloughton Wyke
Your Yorkshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

Cloughton Wyke is an excellent location for finding plant remains. The beds are rich in a variety of fauna and collecting is fairly easy. Bivalves can also be found here along with trace fossils such as ripple marks and burrows.


Cloughton Wyke - North Yorkshire
Last updated: [13/04/07]  last visited 2006
Jurassic
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Cloughton Wyke
(Cloughton Wyke) - 2006

Location Information

Cloughton Wyke yields excellent plant remains, but you will have to work for them. Be sure to take hammers and chisels to split the beds.

(Not suitable for young children)

This location although easy to access has a rocky foreshore and so may not be suitable for young children.

 

Parking is at Cloughton Wyke car park, from here the walk isn't too bad to the shore.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils can be found within the boulders on the foreshore, but they can also be found in the layers within the cliff face.

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. Please keep away from the cliff face as falls can be quite common along this coastline. It is also very easy to get cut off from the tide, so please ensure you return before the tide turns.


Other Locations similar to Cloughton Wyke

Cloughton Wyke is an excellent location for plant remains, but you could also try Little Haven, Nelton Haven in wales, Whitehaven in Cumbria, Offerton in Cheshire, Besom Hill and New Hay Quarry in Lancashire or try Radstock and Writhlington in Avon. which is very similar or try Jurassic plant remains from Yorkshire, Scalby Ness, Hayburn Wyke, Filey, Gristhorpe Bay. In Scotland, you can also try Anstruther, East Wemyss, or Crail.

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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