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Eype Fossils and Fossil Collecting
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Continuing from Seatown, the Dorset Junction Bed, yields plenty of ammonites but will require some hard work with a sledge hammer. Many fossils are also poorly preserved, but decent specimens do turn up. Not suitable for children.

Eype - Dorset
Last updated: [28/02/04] last visited 2004

Jurassic

Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(West to East Ebb.) - 2002

Location Information

If you are prepared to take heavy lump hammers and split blocks from the Dorset Junction Bed, there is plenty to be found, superb ammonites and a wide range of species along with starfish and many other fossils.

(Accepted)

This location is suitable for family trips but not for young children, although you can find fossils on the foreshore, most have to be worked for.

Access to the beach is nice and easy with a car park. Walking along the beach is much harder due to the large number of rocks and slippages.

Foreshore, Cliff

This is a foreshore and cliff location, so fossils can be found in both. The vast majority of fossils need to be worked for by smashing Dorset Junction Blocks on the foreshore.

ACCESS
RIGHTS

This site is part of the Jurassic World Heritage Coastline. Please follow the
Fossil Code of Conduct.

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

Other Locations similar to Eype

Eype is in a class of its own, the whole of the North Yorkshire Coast can be sumiarised in the rocks, technically most ammonites found in Yorkshire can be found here. The beds continue to Thorncombe Beacon. If you enjoy this type of location, you could try nearby Osmington Mills.

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted. The main issue one should be aware of is the tide and the cliffs. It is easy to become cut off so it is important to return at least 3 hours before high tide. The other danger is falling debris. Rocks frequently fall so hard hats are recommended here.

Stone Tumblers (Lapidary)

Microscopes

Test Sieves for Particle Analysis

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.

Eype Fossils and Fossil Collecting Your Dorset Geological Guide and Geology Info

Eype Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Dorset Geological Guide and Geology Info