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Introduction to Eathie

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

The Official ‘Hugh Miller Trail’. Hugh Miller was one of the most important Scottish Geologists of the 19th Century. Ammonites and fish can be found here. The footpath down to the shore was opened up by Hugh Miller himself.


Eathie - North Scotland
Last updated: [12/10/05]  last visited 2005
Jurassic
Devonian
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Scottish Fossil Collecting in Eathie Your North Scotland Geological Guide & Geology Info.
(Eathie Foreshore) - 2005

Eathie Location Information

Probably Scotland's most collected site for Jurassic fossils, but sadly over-collected and dependent on beach conditions.

(Not Suitable for Familes)

Due to the long steep walk down to the beach, this location is not suitable for families.

From the car park, the only access is a long walk down down a steep route. The track seems to go on forever and coming back, especially with extra weight is difficult with an up-hill climb.

Foreshore

The cliffs at Eathie are Devonian, fossils are found within the Jurassic Rocks exposed on the foreshore.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
SSSI, no hammers, no hammering

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

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! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

The sea can come quite high at Eathie. Ensure you return well before high tide. The foreshore can be very slippery and rocky. Please wear suitable footwear

Other Jurassic Coastal sites in Scotland

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 Eathie that are featured on UK Fossils are, Helmsdale, Golspie, Portgower, Crakaig, Kintradwell, Brora River, Balintore and Brora Foreshore.

Within the local area, Achanarras, Queensferry 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 Cromarty, John o' Groats, North Berwick and Tarbat Ness.

Other locations with Kimmeridge Clay are, Chapmans Pool, Kimmeridge Bay, Lothbeg, Portgower, Helmsdale, Balintore and Eathie, in Scotland, or Wyke Regis, Bowleaze Cove and Ringstead in Dorset.

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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