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Introduction to Burnham-on-Crouch

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Burnham-on-Crouch
Your Essex Geological Guide and Geology Info

Burnham-on-Crouch has yielded an incredible variety of fossils, you just never know what you may find. Various sharks species (teeth and vertebrae most common), crabs, seeds, fish remains (including ray teeth), and much more.


Burnham-on-Crouch - Essex
Last updated: [09/03/05]  last visited 2005
Eocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Burnham
(Burnham-on-Crouch, London Clay Cliffs) - 2005

Location Information

Burnham on Crouch yields many fossils from the London Clay, the london clay at Burnham, produces a lot of fossil wood and pyrites, so you will need to look hard and it is often a 'on your knees' job.

(Not Suitable)

This site is not suitable for children, due to the long walk and the large amount of glass on the foreshore.

Unfortunately access to this site is quite poor, a long walk with limited/restricted parking, or an even longer walk.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils can be found on the foreshore especially after storms or scouring conditions, but fossils are also commonly found at the base of the cliff on the scree slopes. This is an SSSI Site so you must not dig directly in the cliff.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
SSSI - NO DIGGING/HAMMERING IN THE CLIFF

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 danger at walton is boggy areas of mud close to the river, which in the past people have become stuck. Please keep away from these areas. There is also a large amount of 'glass' on the beach, please take extra care especially if searching on your hands and knees.

Other locations similar to Burnham on Crouch

For locations where you can find fossils from the Eocene London Clay, try Isle of Sheppey, Ramsholt, Maylandsea, Nacton, Levington, Bawdsey, Bognor Regis or Walton-on-Naze.

If you like collecting sharks teeth you could also try Harwich, Bracklesham Bay, Herne Bay, Barton-on-Sea or Milford-on-sea which are also of the
Eocene age


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.

Metal Detectors


We have a wide range of metal detectors and motion detectors.

Our metal detectors are of a very high quality and are british made by the Viking Company.

Why not take a metal detector when your fossil hunting! you never know what you may find.


We sell a wide range of compasses to both explorers, students to boat owners.

Some field compasses have build in clinometers so you can calculate the height of cliffs.

Our compasses are high quality. They are an essential part of the explorers kit.


All of our fossils are genuine and have been checked carefully, we only buy from reputable sources.

We have a wide range of fossils from low cost budget fossils to expensive stunning display pieces.

Our fossils are of a very high standard and they come from all over the world.



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