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Introduction to Parkhouse Hill

Parkhouse Hill Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Derbyshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

Set within the rolling Peak District countryside, Parkhouse Hill, near Earl Sterndale is a beautiful location with various types limestone reef fossils. The view from the top of the hill is nothing short of stunning.


Parkhouse Hill - Derbyshire
Last updated: [15/06/07]  last visited 2007
Carboniferous
Written by Joe Shimmin

(Parkhouse Hill, 2007)

Location Information

There are plenty of loose rocks to investigate for fossils. Outcrops of in situ limestone are also fossiliferous.

(Suitable for children (with supervision))

In some places the hill is steep. There are also some precipitous drops near the summit. Children must be supervised at this location and are best left to examine the lower slopes.

 

Car parking is easy, the hill is within a short distance and there is public access to the area.

Rock Outcrop Scree

Limestone with various reef fossils can be found over many areas of the hill.

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There is a public access to the whole of the hill

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

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Other Locations similar to Parkhouse Hill

Parkhouse Hill is an excellent location for corals, other similar locations for Carboniferous Corals are; Castleton, Portishead, Weston-Super-Mare in Avon. In South West Wales, you can also find Silurian Corals from Freshwater East, Marloes Sands. Mortimer Forest, Shadwell Quarry, Upper Millichope , Llanymynech Quarry, and Wenlock Quarry, Wenlock Edge in the Shropshire District. Along the South West Coast, you can also collect Devonian Corals from Torquay along Hopes Nose and Daddy Hole. In Scotland, you can also find corals at St Monans. From South Wales, Carboniferous Corals can be found at Lydstep Headland, West Angle Bay and Manorbier Bay.

For Corals from Younger period, the Coralline Crag at Ramsholt makes ideal collecting.



! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

The steeper areas of the hill should be attempted only by the fit and sure footed. Many loose rocks are present within the faces of the limestone outcrops which could pose a threat if disturbed. Near the top of the hill there are steep drops. There are plenty of fossils to be seen lower down though, so this is an ideal location for children under supervision.


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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