FOSSILS and Fossil Collecting in the UK - Location and fossil guides

Fossils & fossil collecting
Featuring hundreds of fossil yielding locations, geological guides, and educational advice. Welcome to our fossil hunters community.

Fossils, rocks and minerals can be found easily with a little patience and the knowledge of where to look and what to find. The UK Fossils network covers a large number of locations that are suitable for fossil collecting, complete with what fossils you can find, thousands of geological and fossil photos, access rights and helpful hints and tips.

Are you new to fossils? need some educational advice? or just want to learn more. Our guides include 'what is a fossil?', 'how fossils formed?' and 'where to find fossils?'

We also have a range of helpful fossil guides telling you all about the different fossil groups, such as 'ammonites', ' belemnites', 'ostracods' and 'foraminifera'. Plus hints and tips.

UK Fossils also features a comprehensive geological 'timeline', covering detailed stratigraphy of all periods. We have a 'glossary' of terms, directory of societies, tide times and other useful resources.

Our events diary has a list of what's going on in your area, and you can keep up-to-date with the latest news

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Locations by county: Avon, Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Cleveland and Durham, Derbyshire, Dorset, Devon, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cumbria, East Riding, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, I sle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, London, Norfolk, N. Scotland, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Sussex, N. Yorkshire, SW. Wales, S. Wales.Midland Valley/Grampian, South Scotland, Skye

Map of Fossil Locations in the UK
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Articulated Crinoid found at West Angle Bay, Pembrokeshire, on the 14th/15th June 2008, by Alan Bell

found at yaxley 2006, pliosaur pelvic plates with its last meal attached, a Lepidotus - Steven Dutch

Part of the wing of a large dragonfly from the extinct family Aeschnidiidae. Found by Joe Bryce. Saturday (19th July 08).

A collection of fossils from Xwejni Bay, Malta, found by Matthew (age 10). The fossils are: (left to right) echinoids, fish bone, oyster, ammonite, gastropods and a collection of shark teeth.

Fossils from Stockdale by Charles and Kimberly Paxton, July 2008

Fossil found from cobble landing, filey - Brent Burnett, July 2008

Fossils from Whitehaven by Charles and Kimberly Paxton, July 2008

UK Fossils Network 10th Anniversary - The UK Fossils Network has reached its 10th anniversary. We have been providing the internet with fossil gui......[more]

Spider Fossils subject to X-Ray release - It has been reported that a scientist, one David Penney from the university of Manchester has produced an incredible achievment. David has used X......[more]

'Giant dino' found in Argentina - A possible new species of giant plant-eating dinosaur have been discovered in Argentina. The new dinosaur name, proposed as, Futalognkosaurus......[more]

UK Fossils and Deposits Magazine - UK Fossils is now directly linked to the 'Deposits Magazine', which is receiving some excellent feed back for the quality of its articles publish......[more]

UK Fossils Hits 1million - UK Fossils has this week gone past the 1 million visitor total to the site, what a fantastic total. On behalf of all of us back at base "We thank......[more]

Dinosaur Fossils and grave robbery in the Gobi Desert - The Dorset based Scientific Exploration Society has just returned from a month long expedition in Mongolia�s Southern Gobi Desert where they disc......[more]

The word Fossil used to be defined as ‘something dug up’. Now-a-days it generally means ‘The remains or trace evidence of prehistoric life’. The study of fossils is called palaeontology; someone who collects and studies them is called a palaeontologist. Fossils can be as tiny as a grain of pollen or a seed or as huge as a limb bone from a giant dinosaur. For animal or plant remains to have become ‘fossilised ‘, they must go through a certain process that preserves them for up to millions of years after they have died.

Fossils abroad - We have just started adding the first of a few fossil locations outside the UK. The first is for Elafonissi, Crete

Discuss Fossils - Visit our active discussion board, its a community of its own! Discuss Fossils can help you learn and read about locations to hunt and even identify your own finds. Regular experts visit the forum to help answer some of the questions raised by members. This is also a great place to meet people also interested in collecting fossils.

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