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How to Find Elgol

Grid Reference
British National Grid
NG 51876 13679
Degrees
57.14671°N, 6.10360°W



 Park at the car park next to the harbour. At peak times this can be busy, if so you may find a space outside the village shop.  

 Walk along the beach to the North and around the headland. Carry on into the bay and start looking for pebbles, cobbles and boulders containing fossil bivalves.   

  For the adventurous, there are also belemnite fossils and occasional ammonites to be found if you keep walking. There are many boulders and rock outcrops to climb over to find them however, so this is not particularly recommended. The ammonites are of a rather poor quality at Elgol and belemnites are commonly found at other locations on Skye.




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