Our major new forthcoming edition to the UK Fossils Network is the area of Portishead. The geology of this area is very interesting and contains rocks from the Triassic, Devonian and Carboniferous. Whilst corals, crinoids, trilobites and shells can be collected from the Carboniferous, fish remains can be found from the Devonian Rocks.

Our starting point is at Battery Point, there is a car park near the swimming pool and you can walk to the rocks at Battery point, Woodhill bay and Kilkenny Bay. As you immediately enter the foreshore, there are plenty of rocks to look through, these contain many shells, crinoids, corals and if you are lucky trilobites. We managed to find some Crinoids, Corals and Shells but unfortunately found no trilobites which are much more rare.

Crinoid Stem


Coral

From here, you can walk further around Woodhill Bay, here the Carboniferous beds can be seen in a second small cliff with corals which can be collected.

Coral

Further around Woodhill Bay, the next cliff is the highest in this area and the uppermost part is Triassic whilst the lower beds are Devonian. The fish remains can be found in the Finely laminated red and dark brown coloured layers, the fish remains are either white or grey depending on the zone. It may take time to find this zone but there are plenty of rocks on the beach to look through and split.

Fish Scale


Fish Scale

Finally from here, Kilkenny bay starts where the White coloured sandstone begins, this continues around Kilkenny and is carboniferous. Corals can be found further around this bay.