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Introduction to Seven Sisters

Fossils and Fossil Collecting in Seven Sisters
Your Sussex Geological Guide and Geology Info

World famous site for its highly Fossilferious Chalk, packed with a wide range of different Echinoid species, Brachiopods, Bivalves and Crinoids. This is one of the best chalk locations in the UK for zonal variety. Recommended to all keen Chalk fossil hunters.

Seven Sisters - Sussex
Last updated: [17/11/05]  last visited 1996
Cretaceous
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Seven Sisters) - 1996

Seven Sisters Location Information

Highly Fossilferious Chalk. Seven Sisters is one of the best chalk locations in the UK and is full of surprises. Recommended to all keen Chalk fossil hunters.

(Suitable for Families)

Seven Sisters is suitable for families, but not recommended for small children. Please keep away from the base of the cliff at all times.

  

It is a long walk down to the cliffs at Seven Sisters with many steps. This can make access to this location difficult for some.

Cliff and Foreshore

Fossils at Seven Sisters are mostly found simply lying on the foreshore, but they are also be found in the cliff face and scree slopes.

ACCESS
RIGHTS
There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Other locations similar to Seven Sisters

If you are interested in chalk locations, you could try nearby Peacehaven, Beachy Head or Eastbourne both in Sussex. In Bedfordshire, you can also visit Houghton Quarry.

In Kent, St Margaret's Bay, Pegwell Bay, Dover, and Samphire Hoe may be of interest, or in Dorset, Whitenothe.

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

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted. Two dangers are apparent along the Seven Sisters coastline, the first is the tidal conditions which need to be taken note of, and good time allowed to return. The other important note is the danger of falling debris and cliff falls from the high cliffs. Stay away from the foot of the cliff and if you are knocking fossils or hitting rocks, do so well away from the cliff as hammer vibrations can cause debris to fall. Hard hats should be worn. Be careful of slipping on seaweed on some of the rocks on the foreshore.

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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