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Introduction to Harwich

Harwich Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Kent Geological Guide and Geology Info

What looks like a flat beach behind a concrete sea wall actually yields plenty of Sharks and fish teeth, plant remains and much more. People have been collecting here for years. This location is subject to beach conditions.

Harwich - Kent
Last updated: [30/03/07]  last visited 2007
Eocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Harwich) - 2007

Location Information

Harwich can at times be very productive but much depends on the beach and tidal conditions.

(Suitable for Children)

This location is ideal for children, the only advice is to be aware of sharp metal objects along this beach.

   

Harwich is easy to find with free parking, and near to toilets and food.

Foreshore

This is a foreshore a location, This is a 'hands and knee's job', by crawling along the beach, you should be able to find the fossils amongst the shingle. Best done on a dry warm day.

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 Harwich

If you are interested in other similar locations in the area and of which have London Clay, try Isle of Sheppey in Kent or Levington, Nacton, Ramsholt, Bognor Regis, Bawdsey, in Suffolk or Maylandsea, Walton-on-Naze or Burnham on Crouch in Essex
If you like collecting sharks teeth you could also try Abbey Wood, 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. Sometimes metal junk peaces can be seen along the beach, one should take care as some of these can be quite sharp. Generally Harwich is ideal for children to collect.

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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