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Introduction to Fishguard

Fishguard Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your SW Wales Geological Guide and Geology Info

Most of the rocks at Fishguard are unfossiliferious, but the Silurian and Ordovician rocks within precambrian volcanic rocks yield graptolites. These can be very hard to find. Trace fossils have also been recorded from this location.


Fishguard - SW Wales
Last updated: [20/07/07]  last visited 1995
Silurian
Ordovician
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Fishguard, 1995)

Location Information

Fossils from Fishguard can be difficult to find.

(Suitable for Children)

Fishguard is unsuitable for children

 

Fishguard is easy to access.

Cliff

Fossils at Fishguard are found within the cliff face.

ACCESS
RIGHTS

There is unrestricted access to this location.

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Other Locations similar to Fishguard

If you like Graptolites, you could also try Stockdale Beck, Stockdale Quarry, Barrow, Causey Pike, Clints Quarry, Coniston, High Fell, Stair Stream, in Cumbria, Abereiddy, Fishguard, Little Haven, Druidston Haven, in Wales, Betton Dingle, Hillend, Hodgson How, Hope, The Onny Trail, Vinnels, in Shropshire.

If you like looking for trace fossils, there are lots of locations all over the UK from various time periods. Abereiddy, Barns Ness, Blackgang, Causey Pike, Crail, Elgol, Fishguard, Freshwater East, Newhey, St Monans, Stair Stream, Presipe.


Graptolite found at Fishguard


! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted. This part of the coastline at Fishguard can be very dangerous for tidal conditions, make sure you return before the tide turns.

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.

Why not try...

Looking for more good fossil hunting trips? Why not try the following locations which are all very good for finding fossils...

Whitby, Bracklesham, Kettleness, Eastbourne, Hastings, Hope, Staithes
Quantoxhead, Fishguard, Abereiddy, Whitehaven, Aust, Hunstanton,


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