Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Suffolk |
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Grid reference | TM 435 547 [1] |
Interest | Geological |
Area | 0.5 hectares [1] |
Notification | 1985 [1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Red House Farm Pit is a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wickham Market in Suffolk. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site, [3] and in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [4]
This pit exposes a 3.5 metres (11 feet) section of the sandwave facies of the Pliocene Coralline Crag Formation. It has many bryozoan fossils. [5]
There is access to the site by a track from Lambert's Lane.