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Introduction to Hayburn Wyke

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Hayburn Wyke
Your Yorkshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

Hayburn Wyke is a superb location in Yorkshire for finding fossil plants. There are not many people who are aware of this location due to this area being missed out from the highly popular Yorkshire Geological Guide.

Hayburn Wyke - North Yorkshire
Last updated: [16/04/07]  last visited 2006
Jurassic
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Hayburn Wyke
(Hayburn Wyke) - 2006

Location Information

Hayburn Wyke yields excellent plant remains, but you will have to work for them. Be sure to take hammers and chisels to split the beds.

(Not suitable for children)

This location is difficult to get to the shore, there is quite a drop and therefore this location is not suitable for children.

 

Access to the shore at Hayburn can be difficult due to a large drop at the waterfall. There is also a fair walk to the shore.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils can be found within the boulders on the foreshore, but they can also be found in the layers within the cliff face.

ACCESS
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. Please keep away from the cliff face as falls can be quite common along this coastline. It is also very easy to get cut off from the tide, so please ensure you return before the tide turns.


Other Locations similar to Hayburn Wyke

Hayburn Wyke is an excellent location for plant remains, but you could also try Little Haven, Nelton Haven in wales, Whitehaven in Cumbria, Offerton in Cheshire, Besom Hill and New Hay Quarry in Lancashire or try Writhlington in Avon. which is very similar or try Jurassic plant remains from Yorkshire, Cloughton Wyke, Filey, Scalby Ness, Gristhorpe Bay. In Scotland, you can also try Anstruther, East Wemyss, or Crail.

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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