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Introduction to Causey Pike

Causey Pike Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Cumbria Geological Guide and Geology Info

Causey Pike is over 600m high. It is a small mountain with many outcrops of rock and scree slopes. Trilobites, Trace fossils and Graptolites can be found in the scree when climbing towards the summit. This trip is hard going.


Causey Pike - Cumbria
Last updated: [10/07/04]  last visited 2004
Ordovician
Written by Alister and Alison Cruickshanks

(Causey Pike - Few Fossils but a Breathtaking View) - 2004

Location Information

It is best not to expect to find anything, then you won't be disappointed if you come back with nothing. Trace fossils are the most common find, but even they are rare.

(Not Recommended for Children)

This location is not recommended for children, the steep high climb would be too much. It may be suitable for families simply as the view from the top is fantastic, but is a challenge to anyone.

Causey Pike is hard going, it will take the average person a couple of hours walk to reach the summit after examining rocks along the way and then you will need to descend.

Scree Slope

The scree slopes on the side of Causey Pike can yield fossils. Scree slopes require no hammers, simply a good eye and some patience.

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There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Please follow our national fossil collecting code

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! IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTES !

Causey Pike is extremely steep, especially at the summit. The footpath in places is narrow and on the edge of a sheer drop. Please take extreme care when climbing and descending Causey Pike. The rocks can also be slippery, especially during and after rain at the top and when climbing loose scree.


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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