Hurst Hill, Oxfordshire Explained
| Hurst Hill |
| Aos: | Oxfordshire |
| Interest: | Biological
Geological |
| Area: | 20.6ha |
| Notifydate: | 1986 |
| Map: | Magic Map |
Hurst Hill or Cumnor Hurst is a 20.6abbr=offNaNabbr=off biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Oxford in Oxfordshire.[1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]
The site is owned by All Souls College, Oxford,[4] and its mosses and liverworts have been monitored for more than fifty years. The hill is also important geologically. In 1879 a fossil of a Camptosaurus prestwichii, a large herbivorous dinosaur dating to the Upper Jurassic 153 million years ago, was found on the site.[5] The fossil belongs to a typically North African genus, and provides evidence of a land bridge across the proto-Atlantic in the Late Jurassic.[6]
The hill is mentioned in Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy.[4]
External links
51.7333°N -1.3111°W
Notes and References
- Web site: Designated Sites View: Hurst Hill . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 6 April 2020.
- Web site: Map of Hurst Hill. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 6 April 2020.
- Web site: Chawley Brickpits, Cumnor Hurst (Jurassic - Cretaceous Reptilia) . https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20190808133212mp_/http://archive.jncc.gov.uk/default.aspx?page%3D4174%2526gcr%3D1110 . dead . 8 August 2019 . Geological Conservation Review . Joint Nature Conservation Committee . 26 February 2020 .
- Book: Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Oxford University Press. 2015. 371, n. 625.
- Web site: Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History. 6 April 2020.
- Web site: Hurst Hill citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 6 April 2020.
