Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Suffolk |
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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 (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.