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Introduction to Pembroke Castle

Pembroke Castle Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your SW Wales Geological Guide and Geology Info

A castle may not be the first place that you think of when looking for a fossils, but Pembroke Castle is built of local limestone, which over the centuries has been weathered to reveal its fossil contents.

Pembroke Castle - SW Wales
Last updated: [25/07/07]  last visited 2007
Carboniferous
Written by Joe Shimmin

(Pembroke Castle, 2007)

Location Information

(No collecting possible)

Many of the castle’s building blocks are composed of crinoidal limestone. Some of these have been weathered slowly and delicately over hundreds of years to bring their fossils into high relief, showing immaculate detail.

(Suitable for Children)

This is a tourist attraction and as such caters for all members of the family. While the fossil hunters are staring at rocks in the walls the rest of the party can enjoy an interesting and educational day out.

 

The castle is within the town centre with plenty of pay and display parking to be found near by. Most of the staircases within the various parts of the building are steep and young children should be supervised when climbing and descending these. The castle is open all year round, 7 days a week. Opening times vary; please see the castle’s web site for details. Admission prices are £3.50 for adults and £2.50 for concessions.

Castle

Pembroke Castle gives the fossil hunter a chance to see what the fossiliferous limestones of the area look like when naturally weathered over hundreds of years.
ACCESS
RIGHTS

Privately owned, an admission fee must be paid to gain entry.

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

A UK Fossils & Discovering Fossils initiative (c) 2006

Other Locations similar to Pembroke Castle

This 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. In Scotland, you can also find corals at St Monans

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.



! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Children should be supervised when climbing the steep staircases within the towers. Otherwise this is a safe location.

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 castle, 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 thoucastle of Test Sieves for Particle Analysis.

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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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