A quiet peaceful location where fantastic bryozoans can be seen in carboniferous rocks. You can also find many slabs of 'Trilobite tracks' preserved as they moved across the mud. Fish and trilobites can also be found here.

Ardwell Bay, South of Girvan is the best coastal location around Girvan for finding fossils. Graptolites are the most common find, with Orthocone fragments and trilobites also quite common. brachiopods can also be found. The rocks to split are easy to identify being black when weathered.

Dob's Linn is a famous location for Graptolites, and indeed, one of the best. You can collect many different species form the shale. It can be hard to find, but well worth the trip. Be sure you bring paper to wrap your specimens.

The volcanic rocks at Aldons Quarry, contain a variety of Ordovician fossils, including trilobites, brachiopods, bivalves, cephalopods, gastropods, graptolites and goniatites. The fossils are found in mudstone which can be searched in the scree slopes.

The rocks from Shallock (South of Girvan) to Whitehouse, including Woodland Bay contain fossil graptolites and trilobites. Girvan is a well-documented area for fossils, and is one of the most popular areas to collect in Scotland. This foreshore location is easy to access, but you will need the correct tools.

Spectacular bedding packed with corals can be seen at Barns Ness. This is a fantastic location for corals although they are not as well preserved as those from Aberlady. There is plenty to be found here.

Ordovician rocks at Craighead Quarry are very fossilferous. This disused quarry is often visited by local schools and colleges to study fossils from this site. It is now quite overgrown, but still with plenty to be found. The most common finds are Graptolites, brachiopods, trilobites and gonatites.

Below the Forth Road and Forth Rail Bridges, Carboniferous fish fragments and plant remains can be found in the scale. It can take some time to find fossiliferious zones, but once you do, there is plenty to be collected.

Along the seafront at Edinburgh, Carboniferous rocks yield fossil plant remains, crinoid stems and shells. Most of the best beds have been over-collected during the years, but there is still lots to be found.

There are a few burns around the village of Dalmellington which have been cut into fossiliferous carboniferous shale. The most common finds are mussels but plant remains can also be found. This location is best visited after a dry spell as if the water is too high, the beds are not exposed.

The rocks at North Berwick are volcanic tuffs, but small cementstones within a small zone of tuff contains fish remains and 23 species of pteridosperms and lycopods.

A famous but now over-collected location, once yielding a rich variety of plant remains in the coal measures. It can be hard to find and often, the beds are so over collected that fossils are now hard to find.

A small area at Saltcoats yields plant remains. Although much of the rich carboniferous beds have since been washed away by the sea, and fresh beds unable to be exposed due to the sea defense, you can still occasionally find plant remains in the foreshore shale. Most of the shale today is unproductive.