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There is nearly always people collecting at Bracklesham Bay. Fossils can simply be picked out washed up on top of the sand, you can normally come back with bags full of decent finds. At scouring tides, the formation is exposed and the beach is covered in Sharks & Ray teeth, and Shells. |
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Highly Fossilferious Chalk, packed with Ammonites, Nautilus, Echinoid's, Brachiopods, Bivalves and Crinoids. This is one of the best chalk locations in the UK and is full of surprises. Recommended to all keen Chalk fossil hunters. |
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World famous site for its highly Fossilferious Chalk, packed with a wide range of different Echinoid species, Brachiopods, Bivalves and Crinoids. This is one of the best chalk locations in the UK for zonal variety. Recommended to all keen Chalk fossil hunters. |
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Hastings, one of the only places outside the Isle of Wight, where Dinosaur bones can be found. This popular and important site has yielded some important finds over the years. Fish, shark, plant, reptile remains and shells can also be collected. Keep a look out for Dinosaur Footprints. |
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Continuing from Hastings, This popular and important site has yielded some important finds over the years. Fish, shark, plant, reptile remains and shells can also be collected. This site is exceptional for small mammal and fish remains. Crocodile Teeth also turn up. |
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Many echinoids can be found at Newhaven. Particularly abundant are Offaster pilula. Certain chalk blocks can be split to yield numerous specimens of this small species. Also abundant but usually incomplete are Echinocorys. If you walk far enough you may be lucky enough to spot giant ammonites in the wave cut platform. |
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Sometimes Bognor can be a stoney beach, the next a long golden sandy coastline and during scouring tides it can be a muddy heaven for fossil hunters. Rich in Shells, Insects and Plants, and in particular large well preserved superb shells. Its either returning with nothing or bags full. |
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Some lovely Echinoid's can be found at Peacehaven. including some superb large Echinocorys cincta. This locality is also good for fish remains which can be found on the foreshore. |
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This classic British Chalk location is a must for experienced fossil hunters. Over just a few hundred metres, fossils can be collected from the Lower, Middle and Upper Chalk. |
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Although there are plenty of fossils to be seen in the cliffs at Seaford, finding ones that can be collected in boulders and on the foreshore is less easy. The foreshore is often green with algae which makes collecting very difficult. |
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A famous location since the storms of November 2000 unearthed dinosaur track ways exposed on the foreshore. Other finds during scouring conditions are fish, crocodile, turtle and dinosaur remains. |
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Fossils collected direct from cliff face |
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Fossils collected from the foreshore |
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Fossils collected from the cliff and foreshore |
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Location is a quarry or pit |
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Fossils collected from a stream or river bed, |
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Fossils collected from a farm field |
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Fossils collected from road or railway cutting. |
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Fossils collected from hill or mountain scree slope. |
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Fossils collected from rock outcrops. |
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Fossils collected from lake or reservoir banks. |
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Samples taken back for processing microfossils. |

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Fossils are common |
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Fossils often found |
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Fossils are not common |
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Fossils rarely found |
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Site protected, no collecting permitted, or no access to beach |
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Quaternary
Neogene
Palaeogene
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Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic |
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Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian / Pre Cambrian |
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