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Introduction to Manorbier Bay

Manorbier Bay Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your SW Wales Geological Guide and Geology Info

Some excellent geological features can be seen within Manorbier Bay and also from the cliff top path that leads south east from the location. Crinoids and other fossils are abundant and can be found in pebbles in the stream that crosses the sandy beach.


Manorbier Bay - SW Wales
Last updated: [16/01/08]  last visited 2007
Devonian
Carboniferous
Written by Joe Shimmin

(Manorbier Bay, 2007)

Location Information

Grey pebbles within the stream contain crinoid pieces. Corals, poor quality brachiopods and other fossils can also be found here

(Suitable for Children)

The sandy beach is suitable for the whole family and is a good spot for water sports and other seaside activities. The stream is shallow and obstacle free. The cliff top path passes close to steep, unguarded parts of the coastline in places and is more suited to adults and older children.

 

Car parking is found very close to the beach. The stream is shallow and the beach is sandy and flat.

  Beach and Stream

Fossiliferous pebbles can be found among others across the whole of the back of the bay. They are best located when wet however as this brings out the contrast between the fossils and their matrix. Therefore fossil hunting at this location is mostly carried out within the stream.

ACCESS
RIGHTS

SSSI

Please do not damage or deface any in situ rock at this location. There is unrestricted access to the beach and the path.

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Other Locations similar to Manorbier Bay

You can also collect carboniferous Corals from; Lydstep Headland, West Angle Bay nearby, or Portishead and Weston-Super-Mare in Avon, or along the South West Coast, you can also collect Devonian Corals from Torquay along Hopes Nose and Daddy Hole and Castleton, Parkhouse Hill,in the Derbyshire district.


! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

This is a generally safe location. There is little chance of becoming cut off by the tide here and the beach is popular with families. The cliff top walk passes by some precipitous drops in places. Parental supervision is required if walking along it with children. Mobile phone signals may be lost at this location, so be sure to inform someone where of where you are going and what time you are likely to return.

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 Bay, 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 thouBay 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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