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Introduction to Filey

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Filey
Your Yorkshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

Filey Brigg is a very famous foreshore platform that extends a long way out at low tide. Many walk along but many often to do realise that nearby superb plants and shells can be collected near the cliffs next to the Brigg.

Filey - North Yorkshire
Last updated: [13/04/07]  last visited 1994
Jurassic
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Filey
(Filey) - 2006

Location Information

Filey yields plant remains along with bivalves. You can normally return with some good finds but will need to split rocks to have a good chance.

(Recommended)

The famous Filey Brigg makes this an ideal location for the family, Filey is also a seaside town with everything you need with lots to see and do.

 

Parking is at the top of the cliff car park.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils can be found within the rocks on the foreshore but also found after cliff falls.
ACCESS
RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

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. This part of the coastline is very dangerous for tidal conditions, make sure you return before the tide turns. Keep away from the base of the cliffs, rock falls are very common. Hard Hats are recommended.

Other Locations similar to Filey

Filey is an excellent location for plant remains, but you could also try Whitehaven in Cumbria, Little Haven, Nelton Haven in wales, Offerton in Cheshire, Besom Hill and New Hay Quarry in Lancashire or try Radstock and Writhlington in Avon. which is very similar or try Jurassic plant remains from Yorkshire, Scalby Ness, Hayburn Wyke, Gristhorpe, Cloughton Wyke In Scotland, you can also try Anstruther, East Wemyss, or Crail.

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.




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