Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich Explained

Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich
Aos:	Suffolk
Interest:	Geological
Area:	2.2 hectares
Notifydate:	1990
Map:	Magic Map

Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich is a 2.2hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ipswich in Suffolk.^{[1] [2]} It is a Geological Conservation Review site.^{[3] [4]}

This fossiliferous site dates to the late Marine Isotope Stage 7, around 190,000 years ago. It is part of a high level terrace of the River Orwell and it has European pond tortoises, lions, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, horses and voles.^{[5] [6]}

There is no public access to the site.

References

52.046°N 1.15°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Designated Sites View: Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 12 June 2017.
2. Web site: Map of Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 12 June 2017.
3. Web site: Stoke Tunnel (Pleistocene Vertebrata) . Geological Conservation Review . Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 3 May 2017.
4. Web site: Stoke Tunnel (Quaternary of East Anglia) . Geological Conservation Review . Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 3 May 2017.
5. Web site: Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 12 June 2017. 4 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150504195151/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002329.pdf. dead.
6. Book: Paul . Pettitt. Mark. White . The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World . Routledge. Abingdon, UK. 2012 . 978-0-415-67455-3. 211–212, 246.