Corton- Fossils and Fossil Collecting Guide with Geological Info

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Corton
Your Suffolk Geological Guide and Geology Info

Once a famous location for Boulder Clay Fossils such as Ammonites and Ichthyosaurs and rich in Mammal remains from the Forest Bed, since the building of a sea defence, very little is found apart form ammonites after heavy rainfall.

Corton - Suffolk
Last updated: [08/02/07] last visited 2002

Pleistocene

Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Corton) - 2002

Location Information

The sea wall, limits collecting here but after heavy rain and storms when the sea defences fail, fossils can still be found although they are not comon.

(Not suitable for Children)

This location is also a nudist beach, so it is not suitable for Children.

Sometimes you can park in the golf course car park (the old entrance to pleasurewood hills), with a short walk to the beach. However in recent years they often close the car park, so parking is along the side of the main road, on a grass verge.

Cliff

Fossils are found in the cliff, often after heavy rain causes land slips.

ACCESS
RIGHTS

No restrictions at this site

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted.

The sea often batters the sea-wall, especially during the winter months. Waves often come over this wall so care must be taken.

Other locations similar to Corton

For other forest bed locations where mammilian remains can be found, try West Runton.

For other locations in Suffolk where the Boulder clay can yield ammonites, reptile remains, shells etc, try Pakefield For other locations where mammalian remains can be found from the Pleistocene and Pliocene, try Easton Bavents, Easton Wood, Weybourne, or Overstrand or West Runton, Stutton.

Stone Tumblers (Lapidary)

Microscopes

Test Sieves for Particle Analysis

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.

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Corton Your Suffolk Geological Guide and Geology Info

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Corton
Your Suffolk Geological Guide and Geology Info