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Introduction to Coniston

Coniston Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Cumbria Geological Guide and Geology Info

The area of Coniston is quite large, it includes several quarries, several beck's and scree slopes. There is also a number of small cuttings. Graptolites and Trilobites are collected here along with Brachiopods.

Coniston - Cumbria
Last updated: [08/08/04]  last visited 2004
Ordovician
Silurian
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Coniston) - 2004

Location Information

Once the right sections can be found, there is plenty of fossils to be collected. The hardest thing is knowing where to look.

(Not Recommended for Children)

Some of the quarries and streams are very dangerious, this location is not recommended for children.

Coniston is fairly easy to find but the area is so large that finding good fossiliferious sections is hard. You really need to buy the full guide to Coniston and follow it step by step, even then it is easy to get lost.

Steam, Quarry, Scree Slope

The Coniston Area has many sections which are good for fossil collecting. There are several quarries, several cutting sections, a number of streams and scree slopes.

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Similar Locations to Coniston

If you like Graptolites, you could also try Stockdale Beck, Stockdale Quarry, Barrow, Causey Pike, Clints Quarry, Coniston, High Fell, Stair Stream, in Cumbria, Abereiddy, Fishguard, Little Haven, Druidston Haven, Porthgain, in Wales, Betton Dingle, Hillend, Hodgson How, Hope, The Onny Trail, Vinnels, in Shropshire.

If you enjoy this kind of location you could also try ''Upper Millichope'. in Shropshire and will require a fair walk. You could also try 'Stair Stream'

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Coniston can be a very dangerous area. There are a number of fast flowing beck's and quarries, some of the quarries are extremely deep with sheer sides, with no way out. Stay clear of these edges. Some of the land is boggy and can also be dangerous. At the main quarry, the cliff faces are very steep and sheer, you should stay away from the base of these.


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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