Creating a solid future
Please check out our new website
www.greenstonelandscapingcornwall.co.uk
Devonian/Slate fossils are apparently very rare and anyone
Please click on the link to see more pictures of stone fossils
http://www.redbubble.com/people/greenstone
At Green Stone Walling, we take our local history and heritage very seriously and are genuinely interested in the environment as a whole. Collecting sea tumbled fossils is both a past time and a passion.
When we were repairing an old stone wall in the Camel Estuary area of North Cornwall, we found what we believed to be a solitary horn coral that has been fossilised. On splitting a large piece of slate, the fossil was inside it. As North Cornwall is largely from the Devonian period this means that this slate fossil could be between 350-410 million years old, seeing light last year for the first time since it died on the ocean bed.
Cornwall is regarded as having very little in the way of slate fossils, this being due partly to the fact that slate is relatively soft in the world of stone and as a result, they are rarely found undamaged. Truro museum have only a handful of slate fossils on display themselves.
A view of the Camel Estuary
There is a book you can purchase from one of our links (www.ukfossils.co.uk) that is specifically for the North Cornwall area, apparently showing where to find rocks, fossils and minerals and also giving information on how these sites can be accessed.
Please do not hesitate to contact either Simon or Georgie by phoning us on
0120881555307834239702
or emailing on