Neutral Farm Pit, Butley Explained

Neutral Farm Pit, Butley
Aos:	Suffolk
Interest:	Geological
Area:	1.1 hectares
Notifydate:	1985
Map:	Magic Map

Neutral Farm Pit, Butley is a 1.1hectare 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

52.106°N 1.461°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Designated Sites View: Neutral Farm Pit, Butley . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 22 May 2017.
2. Web site: Map of Neutral Farm Pit, Butley. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 22 May 2017.
3. Web site: Butley Neutral Farm Pit (Quaternary of East Anglia) . Geological Conservation Review . Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 3 May 2017.
4. Web site: Suffolk Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan 2013–2018. 76. Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB. 6 August 2016. 15 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160815202035/http://www.suffolkcoastandheaths.org/assets/AONB-Management-Plan-20132018.pdf. dead.
5. Web site: Neutral Farm Pit, Butley citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 22 May 2017. 4 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150504201015/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000781.pdf. dead.