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Introduction to White Nothe

White Nothe Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Dorset Geological Guide and Geology Info

Where else do you get to collect fossils from the Upper, Middle and Lower Chalk and Greensand within just a few metres? This location is superb for its geology but also for its cretaceous ammonites and other fossils.


White Nothe - Dorset
Last updated: [25/02/08]  last visited 2003
Cretaceous
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in White Nothe
(White Nothe) - 2002

Location Information

White Nothe is a location that is not visited often by fossil hunters, so there is often plenty to be found especially after a high tide. However, you really need the right conditions for any decent finds.

(Not Suitable)

This location is not suitable for families because of the long walk down and rocky foreshore.

It can be a long walk down to the beach, and the rocky foreshore can be quite difficult. The car park is also very hard to find.

Foreshore, Cliff

Most of the fossils can be found on the foreshore especially after storms but fossils are also commonly found in the cliff.
ACCESS
RIGHTS
This site is part of the Jurassic World Heritage Coastline. Please follow the
Fossil Code of Conduct.

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted. Ensure you visit during falling tide and return in good time as it is easy to be cut off from the tide. At White Nothe, many large boulders can make access very difficult and it is easy to trip or fall over. You should also keep away from the cliff faces.

Other locations where you can collect fossils from the chalk

Not far from White Nothe is Pinhay Bay and Beer Head, which is also a very good location for chalk fossils.

There are so many chalk locations, some of the best are in Sussex and Kent. The most popular being Seven Sisters, Peacehaven, Beachy Head and Eastbourne. There are also good chalk locations in Norfolk, mostly foreshore exposures at Overstrand, West Runton and Weybourne. In Kent you can also try Dover.

North of England, Chalk locations such as Danes Dyke are very popular with the famous white cliffs of Bempton.

At Whitecliff Bay and Culver Cliff on the Isle of Wight, Culver Cliff (west of the bay) has tall cliffs of Upper Chalk

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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