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Introduction to Milford-on-Sea

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Milford-on-Sea
Your Hampshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

Although Milford is not as productive as Barton, sharks teeth, mammals and shells are still found. There is also a famous crocodile bed, though finding crocodile remains is extremely rare. This location is not recommended for children.


Milford-on-Sea - Hampshire
Last updated: [14/03/05]  last visited 2002
Eocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Milford
(Milford-on-Sea Cliffs) - 2005

Location Information

Milford-on-Sea is not as fossiliferious as Barton, but still yields a range of shells, fish remains and sharks teeth.

(Not Suitable)

This location is not suitable for children since it requires climbing the slippages.

  

A car park is nearby but there is a bit of a walk to get to the location.

Cliff

Most of the fossils are found within the cliff face or slippages.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
No restrictions at this site

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. Care should be taken of tides at Milford as you can become easily cut off. Care must also be taken of the soft areas in the clay, it is easy to become stuck especially in the landslipped areas. Many of these are still active so extreme care should be taken after and during long spells of rain.

Other locations similar to Milford-on-Sea

For similar locations, you could try Bracklesham Bay in Sussex, Barton-on-Sea in Hampshire, or Herne Bay in Kent

If you are interested in other similar locations, you can try the following areas that contains London Clay, try Nacton, Bognor Regis, Ramsholt, Bawdsey, Maylandsea, Levington, or Burnham on Crouch. Isle of Sheppey, Walton-on-Naze.

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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