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Introduction to Shepherds Chine

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Shepherds Chine
Isle of Wight Geological Guide and Geology Info

Shepherds Chine is a superb location that yields some superb fish remains, lobsters, ammonites, brachiopods, bivalves and occasional reptile and dinosaur bones. During the right conditions, you could come back with some superb specimens.


Shepherds Chine - Isle of Wight
Last updated: [02/11/06]  last visited 2006
Cretaceous
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Hastings
(Shepherds Chine Cliffs and Foreshore) - 2006

Location Information

This location has been classified as 'Medium', although lots of fossils can be found, you will often need the right conditions.

(Not Suitable for Children)

Shepherds Chine is not suitable for children.

     

Shepherds Chine has limited parking and there is a fair walk to the beach.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils are found on the Foreshore, you just simply pick them up, but they can also be found in the cliff.

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RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted.

The tidal conditions for this location are dangerous. You MUST return before the tide turns and MUST check out tide times before you visit. It is very easy to become cut off.

You must also take care if walking over the slippages, these can be very sticky and you may get stuck.


Other Similar Locations to Shepherds Chine

For collecting fossils from the Vectis Formation and Wessex Formation. You can also try Yavaland , Brook Bay and Brighstone Bay

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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