Mortimer Forest Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Shropshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

A series of locations along a geological route in Mortimer Forest. Collect a large number of superb corals, brachiopods, bivalves and trilobites from various cuttings All the fossils are in superb condition. An excellent walk too.

Mortimer Forest has lots of fossils to find at several locations along the walk.

(Suitable for Children)

This location is suitable for Children

Mortimer Forest is easy to find, but there is a fair walk.

Cuttings

Fossils are found in cuttings along the walk.

SSSI

No Hammering the bedrock

Other Locations similar to Mortimer Forest

Mortimer Forest is an excellent location for corals, other similar locations for Silurian Corals in the Shropshire District are; Shadwell Quarry , Wenlock Quarry, Upper Millichope , and Wenlock Edge. In South West Wales, you can also find Silurian Corals from Marloes Sands. In Scotland, you can also find corals at St Monans

For trilobites, further locations in Shropshire are Vinnels, Shadwell Quarry , Hillend, Wenlock Quarry,Hope, Betton Dingle, Wenlock Edge, Upper Millichope and The Onny Trail. 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.

You can also collect carboniferous Corals from;Parkhouse Hill, Portishead and Weston-Super-Mare in Avon, or along the South West Coast, you can also collect Devonian Corals from Torquay along Hopes Nose and Daddy Hole and Castleton, in the Derbyshire district. There is also a disused quarry in Shropshire, Llanymynech Quarry.

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