(Collecting from the Stream Cutting - Location 1) - 2003

To collect from the first location, near the stream, you will notice a well cut small bank which shows clear evidence of fossil hunters. Hear you can either look for fragments in the scree or try to obtain freshly cut shale slabs. It is quite difficult and we recommend that you bring something to pry any shale slabs where natural cracks have occurred. Once you obtain a slab, it will most probably already contain Trilobite fragments, but failing this, these slabs can be split easily with a shark chisel ended pick or splitting chisel. The best beds are a grey-like colour on the bottom producing better preserved Trilobites, or below this a black shale which contains more clearer but more fragile Trilobites, a white and sometimes half white/half brown colour. Trilobites can also be found in the middle and top areas of the small bank cutting. The rocks here are highly fossiliferous with Trilobites, the problem is trying to find a descent slab to split, further down the stream within a matter of yards are two further smaller exposures, these contain Graptolites although are quite worn. Once again, these beds are quite fossiliferious, although no Trilobite fragments were found at these smaller locations.

(Location 2 - The Cutting) - 2003

At location two, there are several bands of Graptolites, three different species, the first most common is Monograptus, but there are two other species, one double and the other a brown colour. Cephalopods are also common here. The cutting here is much easier than the Stream for collecting but you won't find any Trilobites here.