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Introduction to Thorington

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

Thorington Pit is now disused, the Westleton Beds sometimes yield the bones of large mammals. Glacial beds can also yield fossils such as shells etc especially on the surface.


Thorington - Suffolk
Last updated: [16/03/07]  last visited 2005
Pliocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Thorington) - 2005

Location Information

Fossils from Thorington are rare since the pit is now disused. The odd fragments of bone can still be found though.

(Not Suitable for Children)

This location is not suitable for children.

Thorington is easy to find as it is along the A12, main road.

Pit

This is a disused pit, fossils can be found on the floor of the pit.

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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. Care should be taken when collecting from at the base of the cliff face.


Other locations similar to Thorington

If you are interested in locations which the Westleton Beds can be found, see Wangford Quarry.

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

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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