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Introduction to Levington

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

Levington is a location along the River Orwell where London Clay is exposed in large cliffs and on the foreshore. Levington has yielded a large number of reptile remains including one complete skeleton.


Levington - Suffolk
Last updated: [23/05/04]  last visited 2004
Eocene
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Levington Cliff and Foreshore) - 2004

Location Information

Levington is a popular location for anyone wishing to collect London Clay Fossils. The Tall cliffs yield a large number of sharks teeth and reptile remains. Collecting is best done during scouring conditons or after a winters high water.

(Suitable for Children)

Although this location is suitable for children. Children must be told to keep away from the mud flaps and soft clay area. Please see 'Safety Notes'

Levington is easy to get to, not too far to walk to, and is very good for families and children.

Foreshore, Cliff

Levington boosts tall London Clay cliffs, you will probably not find much in the cliff itself, but a combination of tide, rain and wind's sieve the fossils from the clay for you. All you need to do is look along the foreshore.

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 Levington

If you are interested in other similar locations in the area and of which have London Clay, try Nacton which is next to Levington, Ramsholt, Bawdsey, Harwich, Maylandsea, Bognor Regis, Walton-on-Naze or Burnham on Crouch.

If you enjoy collecting from the London Clay, you can also try the
Isle of Sheppey which is the best location in the UK for London Clay fossils.

If you like collecting sharks teeth you could also try Bracklesham Bay, Herne Bay, Barton-on-Sea or Milford-on-sea which are also of the
Eocene age

! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Common sense when collecting at all locations should be taken and knowledge of tide times should always be noted. The London Clay often extends far out at low tide. The mud flaps are extremely dangerous and areas of soft clay can suddenly take you by surprise. Just when you believe the surface is hard and stable, your next foot could end you in serious trouble. In the past there has been one death as the result of sinking sand and sinking clay.

The best advice is to always tread carefully, if planning to visit during winter months, take a long stick to prod before you walk. Stay away from the mud flaps completely. If possible take someone else with you and ensure you have a mobile phone.

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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