Cotswolds advice

Im heading up Cotswolds at the end of Jan, any recommendations or advice about any readily accessible sites?

hey I'm in the Cotswold if you want ill come alone with you
The thing is there is no clear fossil band its not crinoidal limestone, Neither is it bryozoan limestone.
It seems to be Grain limestone (Oolitic and Pisolitic limestone) so more of a mix of fossils can be found.
Expect to find many bivalves! The thing is you don't have to go to any specific sites fossils are so commonly found
all over that a walk in a farmer field will be productive! But where are you planning on going in the Cotswold's
as Most of it is the great Oolite group but if your going towards Stroud way it turns more into the Inferior Oolite
group. There is the main places to go Such as the Cotswold water park and quarries but I my self haven't been able
to go there and it costs a bit to go. So all well and said go for a few walks through fields and on the hills as where ever
there is an outcrop of rock in the Cotswold's there is a high chance for fossils


If you need any more help just ask I have lived and hunted in the Cotswold's 5 years now

Thanks ermaster, that is great advice. I will be near Broadway you are welcome to join me.

yea sure that's about 45 minutes from Cirencester
You are a close to the top of the Cotswold so the local geology there is very mixed. There should be a even bigger mixture of fossils around there. Sadly I'm more used to the great Oolite group where as Broadway Seems to be more of the lower Jurassic stones and inferior Oolite group. I don't know many fossil sites around Broadway sadly. I hope the other the other information helps you a bit.

Hey do you have any dates of when your coming??? and any place you would really like to go??? I mean I can get in contact with some palaeontologists from around the area to recommend some good sites if you would really like

I will be up there between the 21st and 24th Jan. Ill be staying around the Broadway area. My plan is to hike down any rocky outcrops and see what's there.

Infact my plans are as follows. 21-24 in Cotswolds then 24-27 in Dorset! Oh quite a fossil trek I am going to have. 27th is the UKAFH hunt at Charmouth

Damn happens to be while I'm at school sorry mate :/
any way if you can post some finds here
Oh and I wouldn't suggest going to any abandoned quarry's and searching as they normally yield little in terms of fossils (depends were though)

Tooo much snow... bagh. Just gonna head straight to dorset. See everyone there sunday!

OK hope Dorset is a bit better

Bloody raining ent it... still at least its now snowing

Your week could have been planned for alot better time

ermaster wrote:Your week could have been planned for alot better time

Tell me about it! Im trying to upload a picture of my tent thats now covered in snow but having trouble wont copy link on phone. Ah well

sorry to hear its going so bad :/

Lol its ok was snug inside the tent... anyway off i go gonna catch me an ichthyosaur.

Good luck lets hope its and Arctic dwelling one