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Introduction to Weybourne

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Weybourne
Your Norfolk Geological Guide and Geology Info

The chalk at Weybourne yields echinoids and brachiopods but resting upon this is the Wroxham Crag. This yields mammal and fish remains along with a wide variety of molluscs in the thick shell beds and crag sands.


Weybourne - Norfolk
Last updated: [23/03/06]  last visited 2006
Pleistocene
Cretaceous
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Weybourne Cliffs, Wroxham Crag resting on Upper Chalk) - 2004

Weybourne Location Information

Weybourne can be a very productive site. Of course fresh cliff falls are ideal but if not you should be able to find some specimens in the chalk cliff face.

(Not Recommended)

This location is not recommended for families due to the long hard walk along a pebbly beach. Weybourne is also a cliff location which makes it too dangerous for children.

Parking nearby at the Weybourne Hope, car park, but unfortunately quite a long walk to get to the fossiliferious beds.

Cliff

Weybourne is a cliff location, fossils are mostly found in the cliff face. Keep away from the base of 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.

The main issue at Weybourne one should be aware of is the tide. Often during winter months it is easy to be cut off from the tide. Care should be taken if climbing onto the iron pan especially after high tides or heavy rain when the above soft material and chalk becomes very slippery.

Other locations similar to Weybourne

For other locations where Pleistocene/Pliocene mammalian remains can be found from the Pleistocene and Pliocene, try Easton Bavents, Pakefield, West Runton, Easton Wood, Corton or Overstrand.

There are other locations in Norfolk which are good for chalk fossils, you could try Overstrand, or at Hunstanton where chalk fossils can be found in the cliff face. West Runton is another good location for chalk fossils but only during scouring conditions, Stutton is another good location.




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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