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Introduction to Minehead

Minehead Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Somerset Geological Guide and Geology Info

The Devonian of Minehead can sometimes yield trace fossils or molluscs, but if you are only after fossils and are not interested in the geology, this location is not for you. Fossils are rare. This location is also not recommenced for families.

Minehead - Somerset
Last updated: [01/06/2005]  last visited 2002
Devonian
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
(View of Minehead (Warren Bay)
(View of Cliff at Minehead) - 2002

Location Information

Fossils and minerals are rare at this location, this site is only suitable for those interested in visiting the Devonian Hangman Sandstone Formation.

(Not Suitable for Families)

This location is not suitable for families, it is very rocky with access a challenge at this part of the Minehead coast and fossils are rare.

Access to this cliff at Minehead is by parking in the town itself and walking from Minehead along the beach.

Cliff

Minehead is a cliff location
ACCESS
RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Other Locations nearby

Other nearby locations which you may wish to visit along the somerset coast are; Watchet Quantoxhead, Kilve, Doniford Bay, St Audries Bay, Lilstock, Blue Anchor and Hinkley Point.

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted. You can easily be cut off at Minehead if you go further than the short cliff. Be careful when splitting rocks as splinters can penetrate the body.

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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