Neutral Farm Pit, Butley

Neutral Farm Pit, Butley
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search Suffolk
Grid reference TM 371 510[1]
Interest Geological
Area 1.1 hectares[1]
Notification 1985[1]
Location map Magic Map

Neutral Farm Pit, Butley is a 1.1 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Butley, east of Woodbridge in Suffolk.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site,[3] and is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[4]

This is described by Natural England as a classic site in the study of the Early Pleistocene in East Anglia. It was used by the nineteenth-century geologist Frederick W. Harmer to define his Butley division of the Red Crag Formation, and it has many fossils of marine molluscs.[5]

There is access to the site from Mill Lane.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Neutral Farm Pit, Butley". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Map of Neutral Farm Pit, Butley". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Butley Neutral Farm Pit (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "Suffolk Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan 2013–2018" (PDF). Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB. p. 76. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Neutral Farm Pit, Butley citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 May 2017.

Coordinates: 52°06′22″N 1°27′40″E / 52.106°N 1.461°E / 52.106; 1.461

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