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Whitesands Bay Fossils and Fossil Collecting
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This popular location among holiday makers has an expansive sandy beach with Cambrian shales outcropping on its north side. Few fossils are found but the beach is an excellent place to take the family.

Whitesands Bay - SW Wales
Last updated: [18/01/08] last visited 2007

Cambrian

Written by Joe Shimmin

(The main fossil hunting area - from the hillock to the car park, 2007)

Location Information

In an hour of searching expect to find only one or two fossils.

(Suitable for Children)

An excellent location for families. The beach has EEC Standard Blue Flag cleanliness status and is patrolled by lifeguards. There is a car park right next to the beach which offers easy access. On-site facilities are provided.

A car park is located immediately adjacent to the beach. From here there is an easy walk of about a hundred meters to reach the fossil hunting area.

Beach and Rock Outcrops

The low cliffs at this location are composed of near perpendicular Cambrian shale strata. Glacial till can be seen resting on their tops.

ACCESS
RIGHTS

No restrictions

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

Other Locations similar to Whitesands Bay

Cambrian fossil hunting is not something that many collectors are interested in, mainly because in the UK, fossils tend to be few and far between and the preservation is poor. However, it is fantastic to collect fossils from 500 million years ago, and this age is what interests those who do collect from this period. Another location is Ben Suardal in Skye, Scotland.

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

This is a largely safe location. Common sense should suffice here.

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 Bay, 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 thouBay 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.

Whitesands Bay Fossils and Fossil Collecting Your SW Wales Geological Guide and Geology Info

Whitesands Bay Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your SW Wales Geological Guide and Geology Info