Tag: Limestone

Isle of Wight by UK Fossils (UKGE Group)
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Bembridge

Bembridge Foreland is an important Isle of Wight fossil site, where the Bembridge Limestone and Bembridge Marls are exposed across the foreshore as a broad wave-cut platform and scattered rock outcrops. Best searched on a low tide, these beds are well known for their shelly fossils, especially gastropods and bivalves weathering from the limestone onto the shore. At foreshore level towards the south-west of the bay, the Bembridge Oyster Bed is regularly washed out and is the main source of the site’s vertebrate material, including turtle, crocodile and mammal remains.Eocene, Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦
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Gloucestershire by UK Fossils (UKGE Group)
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Gilberts Grave

Gilberts Grave is a wooded railway-cutting locality associated with Clypeus ploti echinoids and fossiliferous Middle Jurassic limestone. Its weathered rock faces illustrate the shelly Clypeus Grit of the Cotswolds. Access must be confirmed before a visit: closure has been reported at Chedworth Nature Reserve, and the current route and collecting terms remain unverified. Jurassic, Disused Railway Cutting, Rating: ♦♦♦♦

Cumbria by UK Fossils (UKGE Group)
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Parton Bay

Parton Bay, just north of Whitehaven, has Carboniferous fossils in loose beach stones, including plant remains in shale and corals in limestone. The shore also contains sea glass and other reminders of its industrial past. Reach the village beach through the public railway underpass, check tides and conditions, and leave coastal defences and archaeological remains untouched. Carboniferous, Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦

Derbyshire by UK Fossils (UKGE Group)
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Monsal Dale

Monsal Dale offers a scenic walk among Carboniferous limestone and chert, with crinoid fragments and other marine fossils visible in the rock. The valley also preserves an unusually varied record of coral beds, submarine slumping and ancient lake deposits. Visit for observation and photography, follow the public paths and leave fossils and stone in place. Carboniferous, Outcrops, Rating: ♦♦♦

Derbyshire by UK Fossils (UKGE Group)
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Parkhouse Hill

The steep outline of Parkhouse Hill near Earl Sterndale reveals a Carboniferous reef margin shaped by later faulting and erosion. Brachiopods, corals and crinoid fragments can be seen in its limestone. This protected hill is a place for looking and photographing: leave fossils in place, follow permitted routes and keep clear of steep faces and summit drops. Carboniferous, Outcrops, Rating: ♦♦♦

Derbyshire by UK Fossils (UKGE Group)
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West Quarry

West Quarry, also called Coal Hills West Quarry, exposes fossil-rich Eyam Limestone at the National Stone Centre near Wirksworth. Crinoid debris and brachiopods record a Carboniferous sea on the edge of the Derbyshire limestone platform. Visit to observe and photograph fossils, leave all rocks in place, and keep well away from quarry faces and the sudden drop into the lower workings. Carboniferous, Disused Quarry, Rating: ♦♦♦♦

Scotland - South by UK Fossils (UKGE Group)
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Rocky Joppa foreshore looking west towards Portobello, with sea defences and the pumping station, cropped from original photograph 14048.

Joppa Shore

Along Joppa Shore, east of Portobello, tilted Carboniferous rocks record changing seas, river deltas and coal-forming wetlands. Plant remains, crinoid stems and shells link the fossils to those different environments, while the rocky foreshore reveals a long succession from marine limestones to sandstone and coal measures. Carboniferious, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦