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Introduction to The Onny Trail

The Onny Trail Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Shropshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

Another walk along a geological route visiting a two stream sections, two cuttings including an old railway cutting and a quarry. The rocks here are Silurian, Ordovician and Pre-Cambrian. Shells, Graptolites and Trilobites can be found.


Onny Trail - Shropshire
Last updated: [18/07/07]  last visited 2003
Silurian
Ordovician
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Onny Trail, 2003)

Location Information

Onny Trail has lots of fossils to find at several locations along the walk.

(Suitable for Children)

This location is suitable for Children

 

Onny Trail is easy to find, but there is a fair walk.

Cuttings, Stream, Quarries

Fossils are found in cuttings along the walk.

ACCESS
RIGHTS

SSSI

No Hammering the bedrock

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Other Locations similar to Onny Trail

For trilobites, further locations in Shropshire are Vinnels, Shadwell Quarry , Hillend, Wenlock Quarry,Hope, Betton Dingle, Wenlock Edge, Upper Millichope and Mortimer Forest In South West Wales, you can also find Silurian Trilobites from Marloes Sands and Abereiddy . In scotland you can find Carboniferous Trilobites and tracks at Aberlady.

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 !

Children in particular should stay away from the river. The high cliff faces at the Old Bridge and Quarry should be kept clear of, collect from the rocks below.

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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