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Introduction to Bracklesham Bay

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Bracklesham Bay
Your Sussex Geological Guide and Geology Info

There is nearly always people collecting at Bracklesham Bay. Fossils can simply be picked out washed up on top of the sand, you can normally come back with bags full of decent finds. At scouring tides, the formation is exposed and the beach is covered in Sharks & Ray teeth, and Shells.


Bracklesham Bay - Sussex
Last updated: [24/12/04]  last visited 2004
Eocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Bracklesham Bay) - 2004


Bracklesham Bay Location Information

Fossils at Bracklesham can often be found in most conditions, simply lying in the sand on the foreshore, the best conditions are scouring tides especially during the spring.

(Suitable for Children)

Although Bracklesham Bay is suitable for children. Children must be told to keep away from the mud flaps and soft clay area.

Bracklesham Bay is easy to get to, not too far to walk to, and is very good for families and children.

Foreshore

Fossils at Bracklesham Bay are found simply lying in the sand on the foreshore, the best conditions are scouring tides especially during the spring.

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RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

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Other locations similar to Bracklesham Bay

If you are interested in other similar Eocene locations, you can try
Barton-on-Sea or Milford-on-sea in Hampshire, Harwich in Essex, or Herne Bay in Kent which has both Shells and Sharks Teeth, or Nacton, Bognor Regis, Ramsholt, Bawdsey, Maylandsea, Levington, Burnham on Crouch. Isle of Sheppey or Walton-on-Naze which are London Clay Locations, a similar age to Bracklesham. In London Abbey Wood is also a great place for shark's teeth.

At Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight, the Bracklesham Beds are also exposed.


Shark's tooth found at Bracklesham Bay

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted.

There are no cliffs here at Bracklesham, but the dangers are soft clay during scouring condition, it can be easy to get stuck and consequently, tide then becomes a danger.



Bracklesham Beds found during scouring conditions at Bracklesham Bay

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.

Metal Detectors


We have a wide range of metal detectors and motion detectors.

Our metal detectors are of a very high quality and are british made by the Viking Company.

Why not take a metal detector when your fossil hunting! you never know what you may find.


We sell a wide range of compasses to both explorers, students to boat owners.

Some field compasses have build in clinometers so you can calculate the height of cliffs.

Our compasses are high quality. They are an essential part of the explorers kit.


All of our fossils are genuine and have been checked carefully, we only buy from reputable sources.

We have a wide range of fossils from low cost budget fossils to expensive stunning display pieces.

Our fossils are of a very high standard and they come from all over the world.

Why not try...

Looking for more good fossil hunting trips? Why not try the following locations which are all very good for finding fossils...

Whitby, Bracklesham, Kettleness, Eastbourne, Hastings, Hope, Staithes




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