Brora - Fossils and Fossil Collecting Guide with Geological Info

Fossils and Scottish Fossil Collecting in Brora Your North Scotland Geological Guide and Geology Info

At Brora, Jurassic rocks are deposited from further upstream. These rocks lay around the mouth of the river and along the beaches at Brora. They can contain ammonites and shells.

Brora - North Scotland
Last updated: [06/05/04] last visited 2003

Jurassic

Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Brora Your

(The Foreshore at Brora) - 2003

Location Information

Although the Jurassic Rocks at Brora are highly fossiliferious, they are quite scarce, most of them come from the river and can be found around the river mouth. The best time for collecting is during stormy seas or after a long period of heavy rain.

(Recommended)

Brora is ideal for family trips, its beautiful views, shops and beach can make an ideal day out.

The car park is very close by, near to toilets, you do not need to walk very far and the town centre, shops etc are within easy walking distance.

Foreshore

There are no cliffs at Brora, all of the fossils come from rocks which are brought down from the river and from the extreme foreshore.

ACCESS
RIGHTS

There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

Other Similar Locations

You can also try the tall cliffs along the Brora River which is only a short distance away.

There are a range of Jurassic Coastal sites in Scotland, most near Brora have been caused by the Helmsdale Fault. On the Isle of Skye, there are a number of coastal exposures including Bearreriag Bay, Glasnakille, Elgol, Faoilean. Other locations near to Brora that are featured on UK Fossils are, Helmsdale, Golspie, Portgower, Lothbeg, Kintradwell, Balintore, Eathie, and Crakaig.

Other locations where fossils can be found in the Oxford Clay are, King's Dyke Pit, and Yaxley in the Cambridgeshire region, or in Dorset, try Weymouth, Bowleaze Cove. In North Scotland you can also try Brora which also has Oxford Clay. In Yorkshire, you can try Cayton Bay. Gristhorpe and in Cambridgeshire, Grafham Water

! 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 Brora. Ensure you return well before high tide. Please be careful if you are searching the rocks in the river mouth of Brora, the currents here can be quite strong.

Stone Tumblers (Lapidary)

Microscopes

Test Sieves for Particle Analysis

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.

Metal Detectors

Compasses

Fossils

We have a wide range of metal detectors and motion detectors.

Our metal detectors are of a very high quality and are british made by the Viking Company.

Why not take a metal detector when your fossil hunting! you never know what you may find.

We sell a wide range of compasses to both explorers, students to boat owners.

Some field compasses have build in clinometers so you can calculate the height of cliffs.

Our compasses are high quality. They are an essential part of the explorers kit.

All of our fossils are genuine and have been checked carefully, we only buy from reputable sources.

We have a wide range of fossils from low cost budget fossils to expensive stunning display pieces.

Our fossils are of a very high standard and they come from all over the world.