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Introduction to Dunwich

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Dunwich
Your Suffolk Geological Guide and Geology Info

Below the Glacial Beds at Dunwich Cliffs begins the Norwich Crag. During Scouring Conditions, Mammal Remains can be found below beach level, bones can also be found after storms washed up. Dunwich hasn't scoured for many years.


Dunwich - Suffolk
Last updated: [08/02/07]  last visited 2003
Pliocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Dunwich) - 2003

Location Information

Fossils from Dunwich are rare, this is because the beach is covered with a shingle bank, and the bone bed is very deep. During storms, occasional bones to turn up.

(Suitable for Children)

Although it is unlikely for fossils to be found, the beach itself is suitable for children.

    

Easy parking, with a very short walk to the shore. The large car park contains toilets, cafe and restaurant. There is also a shop.

Foreshore

Fossils are found on the foreshore after storms.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
No restrictions at this site

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. Please keep away from the cliff face.

Other locations similar to Dunwich

If you are interested in locations where you can find Mollosc Crag Shells from the Red Crag and Norwich Crag, try Covehithe, Walton-on-naze, Alderton, Ramsholt, Wangford Quarry, and Bawdsey.

For locations where mammalian remains can be found from the Pleistocene and Pliocene, try Easton Bavents , Pakefield, Weybourne, Overstrand, Corton or West Runton.

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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