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Introduction to Barrow

Barrow Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Cumbria Geological Guide and Geology Info

The hill of Barrow has a range of various types of chlorite-rich Quartz, some of these can be very hard. Other minerals can be found including apatite and glaucodot. These can be collected in the debris on the South facing slope.


Barrow - Cumbria
Last updated: [11/07/04]  last visited 2004
Ordovician
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Barrow) - 2004

Location Information

    

There are plenty of Minerals from Barrow, especially some excellent Quartz. But this is not a location for finding fossils.

(Not Recommended for Children)

The scree slopes can be slippery and dangerous, it is also a long walk, therefore this location is not suitable for children.

Barrow is fairly easy to find and the walk is not anywhere near as bad as Causey Pike since you simply follow the old mine road, which is fairly easy going.

Scree

Minerals at this location can be found in the scree and debris slopes on the side of the hill.
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 Barrow
If you are in the Keswick area, why not try 'Causey Pike', 'Hodgson Quarry' or 'Stair Stream'

If you like Graptolites, you could also try Stockdale Beck, Stockdale Quarry, Barrow, Causey Pike, Clints Quarry, Coniston, High Fell, Stair Stream, in Cumbria, Abereiddy, Fishguard, Little Haven, Druidston Haven, Porthgain, in Wales, Betton Dingle, Hillend, Hodgson How, Hope, The Onny Trail, Vinnels, in Shropshire.


! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Barrow scree slopes can be very steep and slippery, you should take extreme care. DO NOT climb the scree slopes too high, keep near to the base, it may be easy climbing up, but when you come down again, you will realise how steep it really is.

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.

Metal Detectors


We have a wide range of metal detectors and motion detectors.

Our metal detectors are of a very high quality and are british made by the Viking Company.

Why not take a metal detector when your fossil hunting! you never know what you may find.


We sell a wide range of compasses to both explorers, students to boat owners.

Some field compasses have build in clinometers so you can calculate the height of cliffs.

Our compasses are high quality. They are an essential part of the explorers kit.


All of our fossils are genuine and have been checked carefully, we only buy from reputable sources.

We have a wide range of fossils from low cost budget fossils to expensive stunning display pieces.

Our fossils are of a very high standard and they come from all over the world.



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