Fossils and Scottish Fossil Collecting in Crakaig Your North Scotland Geological Guide and
Geology Info
Crakaig
is a tiny Hamlet in North Scotland. Fossils can be found
in the Jurassic rocks on the foreshore. The Kimmeridge
Clay is only exposed during scours.
Crakaig -
North Scotland Last updated: [07/05/04]
last visited 2003
Jurassic
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
(Crakaig Cliffs and Foreshore) - 2003
Location Information
This location has been classified as 'Low' because in order to find any fossils, you need a good scour which does not happen very often. The Jurassic Shales are below beach level.
(Not Suitable for Children)
Crakaig is not suitable for children because of its very rocky foreshore and the low find frequency.
Crakaig is quite difficult to find and there is no official car parking. The walk is also quite difficult over the rocky foreshore.
Foreshore
There are no cliffs at Crakaig, all of the fossils come from sales which are exposed during scouring conditions.
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.
The sea can come quite high at Crakaig. Ensure you return well before high tide. The foreshore can be very slippery and rocky. Please wear suitable footwear.
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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Cruickshanks.
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