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Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Hopes Nose
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| Hopes Nose -
Torquay Last updated: [29/11/03] last visited 2003 |
Devonian |
| Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks |
(Hopes Nose) - 2003 |
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ACCESS RIGHTS |
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Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006
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Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken.
Hopes Nose has some very steep and tall faces, please keep away from the base of these faces as rocks do occasionally fall. Hard Hats are recommended. The biggest danger at Hopes Nose is the tides. The waves can be extremely powerful and the sea always reaches the cliff face at High Tide. Knowing the tide times is absolutely essential and it is important to return before the tide turns. |
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There are a number of locations along the Torquay Coastline that are good for corals, another is Daddy Hole. There are other areas such as Derbyshire and the Lake District where you can find Carboniferous Corals, but by far the most famous county is Shropshire, locations such as Llanymynech Quarry with its Carboniferous Limestone which is on the Welsh Borderline, Upper Millichope, Shadwell Quarry, Wenlock Quarry, Wenlock Edge, Mortimer Forest, and The Onny Trail all Silurian rocks and highly fossilferious. In Avon, you can collect Corals from Weston-Super-Mare and Portishead and Castleton, Parkhouse Hill, in the Derbyshire district. In South West Wales, you can also find Silurian Corals from Freshwater East, Marloes Sands. In Scotland, you can also find corals at St Monans. From South Wales, Carboniferous Corals can be found at Lydstep Headland, West Angle Bay and Manorbier Bay. For Corals from Younger period, the Coralline Crag at Ramsholt makes ideal collecting. For collecting Bryozoans, Ramsholt and Thorpeness in Suffolk is another good location, you can also find Bryozoans from Aberlady in Scotland. |
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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. |
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