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Introduction to Fairlight

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Fairlight
Your Sussex Geological Guide and Geology Info

Continuing from Fairlight, This popular and important site has yielded some important finds over the years. Fish, shark, plant, reptile remains and shells can also be collected. This site is exceptional for small mammal and fish remains. Crocodile Teeth also turn up.


Fairlight - Sussex
Last updated: [08/05/04]  last visited 2004
Cretaceous
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Fairlight
(Fairlight Cliffs) - 2003

Fairlight Location Information

Fairlight yields excellent small fish and mammal remains in blocks of the 'Cliff End Bone Bed' Blocks of this bed which fall from near the top of the cliff themselves can be difficult to find due to over collecting, however there are usually at least a few blocks lying around.

(Recommended)

Although fairlight is suitable for families, The foreshore is very rocky and may not be suitable for children. Keep away from the base of the cliff.

   

Fairlight is fairly easy to access, there is good parking at the pub car park, or along side the road cutting near the pub. If you are using the pub car park, please ask permission before leaving your vehicle. The pub owners are usually very friendly towards collectors .Toilets can be found in the pub which also serves good food.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils at Fairlight can be found on the foreshore especially after storms, but fossils are also commonly found at the base of the cliff on the scree slopes. Extreme Care must be taken and hard hats should be worn if collecting near the base of the cliff, we do not recommend this at all as the cliffs constantly crumble and are very high.
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There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

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! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted. Two dangers are apparent along the Fairlight coastline, the first is the tidal conditions which need to be taken note of, and good time allowed to return. The other important note is the danger of falling debris and cliff falls from the high cliffs. Stay away from the foot of the cliff and if you are knocking fossils or hitting rocks, do so well away from the cliff as hammer vibrations can cause debris to fall. Hard hats should be worn.

Other locations similar to Fairlight

If you enjoy Fairlight, you could also try nearby Hastings or Bexhill or Durlston in Dorset, both are very similar to Fairlight.


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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