Neutral Farm Pit, Butley

Neutral Farm Pit, Butley
Site of Special Scientific Interest
LocationSuffolk
Grid referenceTM 371 510[1]
InterestGeological
Area1.1 hectares[1]
Notification1985[1]
Location mapMagic Map

Neutral Farm Pit, Butley is a 1.1-hectare (2.7-acre) 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. ^ a b c d "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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Neutral Farm Pit, Butley citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
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