Herne Bay Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Kent Geological Guide and Geology Info

Twice a year, fossil hunters across the UK and Europe Flock to Herne Bay for the extreme low tides when the highly fossiliferious beds are exposed on the foreshore. Highly rich in shark and fish remains. Fossils can be found anytime.

Herne Bay is highly productive, most of the fossils are found during the extreme low tidal conditions which occur twice a year, BUT fossils can generally be found during low tide washed up on the foreshore or within the shingle.

(Suitable for Children)

This location is ideal for children, the only advice is to keep an eye on children since if collecting during the extreme low, the tide comes in very quickly and islands of sand can mean, it is easy to become trapped and cut off. Please read safety notes.

Herne Bay is easy to find and easy to access. Parking is very close by and of course for food, drink and toilets, the town center is less than a mile away.

Foreshore

This is a foreshore a location, although Herne has cliffs, these cliffs only contain poorly preserved molluscs which are anyhow better preserved on the foreshore. This is a 'hands and knee's job'.

Other Locations similar to Herne Bay

If you like collecting sharks teeth you could also try Abbey Wood, Bracklesham Bay, or Barton-on-Sea, Harwich,which are also of the Eocene age

If you are interested in other similar locations of which have Eocene London Clay which is similar to Herne Bay, try Levington, Nacton, Ramsholt, Bognor Regis, or Bawdsey, in Suffolk or Harwich, Maylandsea, Walton-on-Naze or Burnham on Crouch in Essex, or the most popular location, Isle of Sheppey in Kent.