Fossils at Kingsbarns

Our first visit to Kingsbarns and we were very impressed by the beach. Lovely sand and stones. Even the ruined harbour is made with blocks of stone containing a large amount of compacted shells. There are also lots of bark impressions and stems in the bedrock.

Fossil Hnting in Crail part 2

Fossilised plant stems exposed in an undercut section of sandstone, a large section of plant stem in a boulder, and Stigmaria in sandstone strata.

The section of Stigmaria we found last year is no longer in situ, whether removed by erosion or collection is unclear. We found a number of short plant stems in amongst shale deposits, with very horsetail like markings on the stem. In the sandstone at beach level on Roome rocks there are a large number of 'nodules' , when removed the ovular dark brown nuggets look very fossil like however what they are we haven't worked out yet.

Fossil hunting in Crail

Gwen holding Stigmaria impression, Arthropleura tracks and Esmé on the fossilised tree trunk. Although we didn't take Esmé beside the tracks the Arthropleura work out at about the same size as her.