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Introduction to Faoilean

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Faoilean
Your Skye Geological Guide and Geology Info

A location which is worth stopping off at for an hour on the way to Elgol, belemnite fossils can be found at this location. A few rocks contain bivalves. Some sandstone outcrops also contain fossils..


Faoilean - Skye
Last updated: [27/09/07]  last visited 2007
Jurassic
Written by Joe Shimmin
Fossils & Fossil Collecting in Faoilean
(Faoilean, Skye) - 2007

Location Information

Belemnite fossils are found in sandstone outcrops as well as in smaller sandstone pebbles and cobbles. Fossils are not abundant but some should be found none-the-less.

(Suitable for children)

Cars can be parked right next to the beach here and when on the beach there are no large boulders or perilous obstacles to overcome.

Although cars are parked in a layby only a few meters from the beach, it is a bit of a scramble through vegetation to get down to it. Once on the beach you can walk North or South unimpeded.

Foreshore

Fossils can be found in the cobbles and pebbles that make up the beach and also within sandstone outcrops.
ACCESS
RIGHTS

There are no access limitations at this location.

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

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! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

This is a fairly safe location. There is no chance of being cut off by a rising tide and there are no serious obstacles to overcome. Mobile phone signals may be lost however, so make sure you tell someone where you have gone and what time you expect to return.

Other Jurassic Coastal sites in Scotland

There are a range of Jurassic Coastal sites in Scotland either on Skye or the North East Mainland especially near Brora which have been caused by the Helmsdale Fault. Other locations near to Helmsdale that are featured on UK Fossils are, Crakaig, Golspie, Portgower, Kintradwell, Lothbeg, Brora River, Balintore,Eathie and Brora Foreshore.

Other locations on the isle of Skye include the popular Elgol, Glasnakille, Bearreraig Bay, Faoilean


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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