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Introduction to Freshwater East

Freshwater East Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your SW Wales Geological Guide and Geology Info

Freshwater East bay is a great location for the whole family. The sandy beach is ideal for children and as it is so large it is unlikely to become crowded even in the height of summer. Fossils are fairly abundant and are easy to find.


Freshwater East - SW Wales
Last updated: [02/11/07]  last visited 2007
Silurian, Devonian, Ordovician, Carboniferous
Written by Joe Shimmin

(Freshwater East, 2007)

Location Information

A few boulders on the west side of the bay contain Silurian fossils. Pebbles and cobbles near the stream can be investigated in search of Carboniferous brachiopods and corals.

(Suitable for Children)

This location is an excellent one to take the whole family to. There is large, sandy beach that kids will love as well as a stream and the clear blue Pembrokeshire sea to paddle in.

 

Parking is within a short distance of the beach. There are no access restrictions.

Cliff and Foreshore

Fossils are found within rocks transported by the stream. These are spread over a fairly wide area.
ACCESS
RIGHTS

SSSI

No access restrictions. Please do not collect from cliff faces or large in situ rocks.

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Other Locations similar to Freshwater East

You can also collect carboniferous Corals from; Portishead and Weston-Super-Mare in Avon, or along the South West Coast, you can also collect Devonian Corals from Torquay along Hopes Nose and Daddy Hole and Castleton, Parkhouse Hill,in the Derbyshire district.

If you like looking for trace fossils, there are lots of locations all over the UK from various time periods. Abereiddy, Barns Ness, Blackgang, Causey Pike, Crail, Elgol, Fishguard, Freshwater East, Newhay, St Monans, Stair Stream, Presipe.



! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

This is a very safe location. The beach is flat and sandy and there is practically no chance of getting cut off by the tide. An ideal location to take children to.

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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