Shadwell Quarry Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Shropshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

This massive Silurian Quarry yields a vast amount of fossils, anyone who visits will have to pick the best fossils to bring back as there is so much to be found. There are many species of corals, brachiopods and bivalves. Trilobites are also common here.

Shadwell Quarry has fossils everywhere, there is plenty to collect for years to come.

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This location is suitable for Children

Shadwell Quarry is fairly easy to find.

Disused Quarry

Fossils are found either in the cliff face or quarry floor.

Sorry, the present quarry owner doesnt allow any visitors to the site.

Other Locations similar to Shadwell Quarry

Shadwell Quarry is an excellent location for corals, other similar locations for Silurian Corals in the Shropshire District are; Mortimer Forest, Wenlock Quarry, Upper Millichope , Llanymynech Quarry, 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, Mortimer Forest, Hillend, Wenlock Quarry,Hope, Betton Dingle, Shadwell Quarry, 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; 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, Parkhouse Hill,in the Derbyshire district..

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