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Introduction to Pendower

Pendower Beach Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Cornwall Geological Guide and Geology Info

The Ordovician Rocks at Pendower Beach contain shell impressions, these are poorly preserved and trilobites are extremely rare, however as with all Cornish fossil locations, these are mainly for fossil enthusiasts and geologists who are not expecting lots of finds.


Pendower Beach - Cornwall
Last updated: [18/01/05]  last visited 2004

Devonian
Ordovician

Written by Richard Menari
(Hard limestone platforms on the Pendower foreshore)
(Pendower Beach) - 2004

Location Information for Pendower, Cornwall

A word of warning about the nature of collecting in Cornwall. If you are used to coming home with bags full of beautifully preserved specimens then I’m afraid Cornwall is not for you, almost all Cornish fossils are relatively rare and you must be content with maybe one or two finds (at most a handful) from each location.

Even then the preservation is often poor with the fossils mainly being preserved as flattened impressions, however having said that the area is under researched and collected, so if you can bear to drive past Dorset why not give it a go.

(Not Recommended)

Pendower is not suitable for families or beginners, please ready satiety notes. This location is mainly for the enthusiast and geologist.

Access to Pendower beach is fairly easy, use the maps on the location access page for easy navigation.

Cliff, Foreshore

Pendower is a cliff and foreshore location, however please be aware of the SSSI Restrictions.
ACCESS
RIGHTS
SSSI - NO HAMMERING
Please DO NOT disturb cliff formations.

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

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Other Locations similar to Pendower

If you are interested in other Ordovician sites, try 'The Onny Valley' in Shropshire. If you are interested in Devonian similar sites nearby, try Weston-Super-Mare in Avon, or from Torquay Hopes Nose and Daddy Hole.


! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Pendower beach is a generally safe area and at low tide there is a beautiful large sandy beach (ideal for the kids). There is a small risk of being cut off by the tide but due to the shape of the bay you can see the approaching tide from a long way off, so there really is no excuse, and anyway of course you will be collecting on a falling tide. The fossil bearing rocks at the eastern end are very jumbled and contain many fairly deep rock pools and drop-offs, for this reason we would not recommend this site for small children as it would be easy for them to become separated or slip and injure themselves. Older responsible children should be fine, please wear suitable footwear boots/wellingtons.

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.


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