Fossils from the UK
Featuring hundreds of fossil collecting locations, geological guides, and 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.
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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, Isle 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
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Please follow our national fossil collecting code
A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006
All recent finds 'emailed to us' get
displayed under our 'recent finds' page. |
Crinoid Stems from Clints quarry near Whitehaven, James Rudhall, Nov 2008 |
Ophthalmosaurus (Ichthyosaur) cervical vertebrae found October 2008 by Paul de la Salle |
Ammonite from Charmouth on Wednesday 15th. Louise Crush |
Found this last weekend while fishing at Hinkley Point - it's probably 14 inches in diameter and as you can see still firmly in the ground partly obscured by sea water. Pete Harmer |
Belemnite found by Gary Bory at Yaxley |
Graptolites from the Ordovician and Silurian black shales of Dob’s Linn, near Moffat. They were found on 5th Oct 2008 by John and Tricia Kirk from Dumfries. |
Horse Jaw found at East Mersea, Essex after high tide |
Echinocorys Finlay found at peacehaven, Sunday 17th July. Found by Finlay Roberts, age 7. |
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]
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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.
Most Popular Fossil Locations: Charmouth Fossils , Whitby, Bracklesham, Burton Bradstock, Quantoxhead, Abbey Wood, Kettleness, Eastbourne, Hastings,Hope, Staithes, Whitehaven, Aberlady, Aust, Hunstanton, Fairlight, Seatown, Seven Sisters
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