Fossil locations of Great Britain


The following page features a selection of classic fossil hunting locations from around Great Britain. The locations are grouped by the dominant surface geology.


Palaeogene (65.5 – 23 Million Years Ago)

Alum Bay
(Isle of Wight)

Barton on Sea
(Hampshire)

Bouldnor
(Isle of Wight)

Bracklesham Bay
(West Sussex)
Warden Point
(Isle of Sheppey)
Herne Bay
(Kent)

Walton-on-the-Naze
(Essex)

Cretaceous (145.5 – 65.5 MYA)

Beachy Head
(East Sussex)
Fairlight
(East Sussex)
Hunstanton
(Norfolk)
Seven Sisters
(East Sussex)

Dover
(Kent)
Folkestone
(Kent)
Peacehaven
(East Sussex)
Durlston Bay
(Dorset)
Hastings
(East Sussex)
Seaford Head
(East Sussex)


Jurassic (199.6 – 145.5 MYA)

Charmouth
(Dorset)
Lyme Regis
(Dorset)
Dunrobin
(Sutherland)
Seatown
(Dorset)
Kimmeridge
(Dorset)
River Brora
(Sutherland)

Carboniferous (359.2 – 299 MYA)

Crail
(Fife)
East Wemyss
(Fife)
Kingsbarns
(Fife)

Silurian (443.7 – 416 MYA)

Marloes Sands
(Pembrokeshire)