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Introduction to John o' Groats

Fossils and Scottish Fossil Collecting in John o' Groats Your North Scotland Geological Guide and Geology Info.

More famously known for the furthest route in the UK mainland. (Lands End to John o'Groats', this location is actually highly rich in fish remains (especially large fish scales).


John o' Groats - North Scotland
Last updated: [22/11/05]  last visited 2005
Devonian
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Scottish Fossil Collecting in John o' Groats Your North Scotland Geological Guide & Geology Info.
(John o' Groats) -
2005

John o' Groats Location Information

There is approx 5 metres of highly fossiliferious rocks on the foreshore, full of fish remains and scales. If you can find this layer and providing it is not covered up, you will find plenty of large superb fish scales.

(Suitable for Familes)

This location is suitable for familes.

   

From the car park at John o' Groats, access down to the shore is a short walk away. The fossiliferious rocks are also only a short distance from the car park.

Foreshore

Fossils can only be found within rocks on the foreshore. Their is a approx. 5 metres band which is full of large fish scales.

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 the tide times should always be noted. Please wear suitable footwear.


Other Jurassic Coastal sites in Scotland

Within the local area, Achanarras and Thurso are very good location where complete fish can be found. At Spital Quarry, fish fragments and complete finds can also be made. Fish can also be found at Eathie, Tarbat Ness, Queensferry, North Berwick and Cromarty.

Some of the best fish come from County Durham. where a number of quarries yield some of the best specimens in the UK.

Fish Remains from the Devonian can also be found at Portishead in Avon.

Of course fossil fish can be found at many locations during many periods, such as fish from the Jurassic of Dorset, Cretaceous of Norfolk, Eocene of Essex, Pleistocene Crags of Suffolk, and the Triassic beds from Aust and Blue Ancher along with many others.


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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