FOSSIL HUNTING BY REGION
The East Riding of Yorkshire, including the Holderness coastline, is known for its rapidly eroding boulder clay cliffs, which contain a mix of reworked Jurassic and Cretaceous material. This constant erosion regularly exposes a variety of fossils, meaning finds can be unpredictable.
Fossils can be collected along much of the coastline, with Mappleton being one of the most popular and accessible locations. Material found here may include ammonites, belemnites, and other fossils derived from the underlying strata.
Further north at Danes Dyke, near Flamborough Head, the Cretaceous chalk is particularly rich in fossils, especially well-preserved sponges, making it an important site for collectors.
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Bridlington’s North Beach becomes increasingly rocky towards Sewerby, where fossil-bearing Chalk blocks occur among the shingle. Sponges, shells and echinoids are the main attractions, while glacially transported material adds a different…
Read the guide →Danes Dyke’s flintless Chalk is known for sponges and beautifully preserved crinoid plates. The shore on either side of the wooded ravine crosses different parts of the Late Cretaceous succession, making…
Read the guide →Easington’s glacial cliffs and foreshore yield fossil-bearing erratics of several ages, with Jurassic shells and Carboniferous corals among the recorded finds. The shore also has scientifically important Pleistocene sediments, but beach…
Read the guide →The beach south of Hornsea offers a changing mixture of fossil-bearing glacial erratics. Jurassic shells and ammonites, Cretaceous Chalk fossils and Carboniferous material may occur together because ice transported their parent…
Read the guide →Mappleton’s glacial cliffs release a varied mixture of fossil-bearing stones onto the beach. Jurassic ammonites, shells and Carboniferous corals occur as transported erratics, with chalk and flint among the other rock…
Read the guide →Tunstall and Sand-le-Mere are known for fossil-bearing glacial erratics, including material much older than the cliffs that contain it. The coast also records a complex Ice Age history, but erosion has…
Read the guide →Ulrome’s eroding clay coast releases a mixture of fossil-bearing glacial erratics, including rocks much older than the Ice Age deposits that contain them. Access is changeable: establish a safe, permitted route…
Read the guide →Withernsea’s beaches offer a mixture of fossil-bearing stones released from the glacial deposits of Holderness. Ammonites, oysters and corals occur as older fossils in transported rocks. The town provides practical beach…
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