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Introduction to Stockdale Quarry

Stockdale Quarry Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Cumbria Geological Guide and Geology Info

At Stockdale Quarry, Ordovician slates yield a variety of fauna including trilobites, corals, graptolites, brachiopods, bivalves and gastropods. This disused quarry is situated at the top of
a large hill.


Stockdale Quarry - Cumbria
Last updated: [04/07/04]  last visited 2004
Ordovician
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Stockdale Quarry) - 2004

Location Information

There is a wide range of fossils to be found at this location, but the fossils are poorly preserved.

(Not Recommended)

This location is not recommended for families. It can be a steep climb to the top of the hill.

Stockdale Quarry is situated in the middle of nowhere, although the walk isn't too bad, the road is a long, narrow single track road which leeds to nowhere. This road is very busy as it is popular with hikers. Parking for one car is available nearby, or if this is taken you will need to walk a further 800m from the car park.

Quarry

This location is a disused quarry, access is allowed since it is on a public footpath. The quarry is in filled with spoil but there is plenty of fossils to be found.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Similar Locations to Stockdale Quarry

If you are in the area, why not visit 'Stockdale Beck' you have to pass this location to get to Stockdale Quarry. Stockdale beck contains Siluarian rocks where graptolites can be found.

If you like Graptolites, you could also try Stockdale Beck, Stockdale Quarry, Barrow, Causey Pike, Clints Quarry, Coniston, High Fell, Stair Stream, in Cumbria, Abereiddy, Fishguard, Little Haven, Druidston Haven, Porthgain, in Wales, Betton Dingle, Hillend, Hodgson How, Hope, The Onny Trail, Vinnels, in Shropshire.

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

During the 2004 UK fossils field trip, during heavy rain when descending the hill, a member of our team slipped on a rock and cut their knee quite badly. It should therefore be noted that extra care should be made during wet conditions. There is a large number of outcrops which need to be cross when climbing and descending the hill, when wet these are extremely slippery.

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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