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A area highly rich in Silurian fossils but of which is also a challenging location to collect fossils. This location is suitable for those used to exploring and walking. A beautiful landscape with many different types of fossils to be collected. This location is famous for is rich-diversity of fossil species, some unique.


 

A quiet peaceful location where fantastic bryozoans can be seen in carboniferous rocks. You can also find many slabs of 'Trilobite tracks' preserved as they moved across the mud. Fish and trilobites can also be found here.


 

Spectacular bedding packed with corals can be seen at Barns Ness. This is a fantastic location for corals although they are not as well preserved as those from Aberlady. There is plenty to be found here.


 

Below the Forth Road and Forth Rail Bridges, Carboniferous fish fragments and plant remains can be found in the scale. It can take some time to find fossiliferious zones, but once you do, there is plenty to be collected.


 

Along the seafront at Edinburgh, Carboniferous rocks yield fossil plant remains, crinoid stems and shells. Most of the best beds have been over-collected during the years, but there is still lots to be found.


 

The rocks at North Berwick are volcanic tuffs, but small cementstones within a small zone of tuff contains fish remains and 23 species of pteridosperms and lycopods.

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South Scotland

Fossils are common
Fossils often found
Fossils are not common
Fossils rarely found
Site protected, no collecting permitted, or no access to beach

Quaternary
Neogene
Palaeogene

Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Scotlandian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian / Pre Cambrian

Fossils collected direct from cliff face
Fossils collected from the foreshore
Fossils collected from the cliff and foreshore
Location is a quarry or pit
Fossils collected from a stream or river bed,
Fossils collected from a farm field
Fossils collected from road or railway cutting.
Fossils collected from hill or mountain scree slope.
Fossils collected from rock outcrops.
Fossils collected from lake or reservoir banks.
Samples taken back for processing microfossils.

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