Geological map

Please select an area of the country you wish to explore. The map is divided into a number of regions which contain locations where fossils can be found.

Alternatively you can select the location of interest from the list alongside the map.

Map adapted from the British Geological Survey mapping. Maps are available to purchase from UKGE.

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Geologic time scale

Featured locations

mya: millions of years ago

Palaeogene - Quaternary 65-0 mya
Alum Bay (Isle of Wight)
Barton-on-Sea (Hampshire)
Bouldnor (Isle of Wight)
Bracklesham Bay (West Sussex)
Herne Bay (Kent)
Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex)
Warden Point (Isle of Sheppey, Kent)

Cretaceous 145-65 mya
Beachy Head (East Sussex)
Dover (Kent)
Durlston Bay (Dorset)
Fairlight (East Sussex)
Folkestone (Kent)
Hastings (East Sussex)
Hunstanton (Norfolk)
Littlehampton (West Sussex)
Peacehaven (East Sussex)
Seaford Head (East Sussex)
Seven Sisters (East Sussex)

Jurassic 200-145 mya
Brora river (Sutherland)
Charmouth (Dorset)
Dunrobin (Sutherland)
Kimmeridge (Dorset)
Lyme Regis (Dorset)
Seatown (Dorset)

Carboniferous 359-299 mya
Crail (Fife)
East Wemyss (Fife)
Kingsbarns (Fife)

Silurian and Devonian 444-359 mya
Marloes Sands (Pembrokeshire)

More locations visit: www.ukfossils.co.uk