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Introduction to Bognor Regis

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Bognor Regis
Your Sussex Geological Guide and Geology Info

Sometimes Bognor can be a stoney beach, the next a long golden sandy coastline and during scouring tides it can be a muddy heaven for fossil hunters. Rich in Shells, Insects and Plants, and in particular large well preserved superb shells. Its either returning with nothing or bags full.

Bognor Regis - Sussex
Last updated: [18/12/04]  last visited 2004
Eocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Bognor Regis) - 2004

Location Information

The problem with Bognor is that fossils can only be found in the right conditions, when beach scouring occurs. At this time, you can come home with bags of finds. Unfortunately if it wasn't for the problems of beach conditions, this would have been a 'High' location.

(Suitable for Children)

Although this location is suitable for children. Children must be told to keep away from the mud flaps and soft clay area. Fossils can only be found during scouring conditions when the clay is exposed on the foreshore.

Bognor is easy to get to, not too far to walk to, and is very good for families and children.

Foreshore

Fossils can only be found during scouring conditions when the clay is exposed on the foreshore.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Other locations similar to Bognor Regis

If you are interested in other similar locations which have London Clay, try Nacton, Ramsholt, Bawdsey, Maylandsea, Levington, or Burnham on Crouch.

If you enjoy collecting from the London Clay, you can also try the
Isle of Sheppey which is the best location in the UK for London Clay fossils or Walton-on-Naze in Essex.

If you like collecting sharks teeth you could also try Harwich, Bracklesham Bay, Herne Bay, Barton-on-Sea or Milford-on-sea which are also of the
Eocene age

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

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

There are no cliffs here, but the dangers are soft clay during scouring condition, it can be easy to get stuck and consequently, tide then becomes a danger.


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.

Metal Detectors


We have a wide range of metal detectors and motion detectors.

Our metal detectors are of a very high quality and are british made by the Viking Company.

Why not take a metal detector when your fossil hunting! you never know what you may find.


We sell a wide range of compasses to both explorers, students to boat owners.

Some field compasses have build in clinometers so you can calculate the height of cliffs.

Our compasses are high quality. They are an essential part of the explorers kit.


All of our fossils are genuine and have been checked carefully, we only buy from reputable sources.

We have a wide range of fossils from low cost budget fossils to expensive stunning display pieces.

Our fossils are of a very high standard and they come from all over the world.




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