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Introduction to Wangford

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Wangford
Your Suffolk Geological Guide and Geology Info

The disused part of Wangford Quarry has very thick Norwich Crag Shell Beds, these run for several meters packed with a vast number of various mollusc species and small mammal remains. Below this Larger mammal bones have been found.


Wangford Quarry - Suffolk
Last updated: 19/05/06]  last visited 2006
Pleistocene
Pliocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Wangford Quarry, disused end with Norwich Crag Shell Beds) - 2002

Location Information

Wangford Quarry Shell Bed is rich in finds. However the best way to find small mammals and particular molluscs is to take back samples for sieving.

(Not suitable for Children)

Quarries are not suitable for children.

Wangford and Wangford quarry is easy to find. The exposures are also close to the roadside.

Quarry

This is a working quarry location, although the actual Norwich Crag beds are now in the disused part of the quarry. Standard quarry safety wear required.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
Access can be made by calling
RMC Aggregates - Eastern Counties
01502 578669

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

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Other locations similar to Wangford

If you are interested in locations where you can find Mollosc Crag Shells from the Red Crag and Norwich Crag, try Covehithe, Walton-on-naze, Alderton, Ramsholt, Easton Wood, and Bawdsey.

For locations where mammalian remains can be found from the Pleistocene and Pliocene, try Covehithe, Pakefield, Weybourne, Overstrand, Easton Wood or West Runton.

For other locations with the Westleton Beds, try Thorington


! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Please stay away from the new 'working' part of the quarry. You will not find any fossils here. Hard Hats and High Vis Jackets essential.

The old disused part of the quarry where the Norwich Crag can be seen contains a very deep pool of water, please keep away from the edges.



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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