Highlands Farm Pit

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Highlands Farm Pit
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Location Oxfordshire
Grid reference SU744813
InterestGeological
Area0.6 hectares
Notification 1986
Location map Magic Map

Highlands Farm Pit is a 0.6-hectare (1.5-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [3]

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The site exposes gravel from the abandoned channel of the River Thames before the Anglian ice age pushed the river south around 450,000 years ago. It may date to the late Anglian Black Park Terrace which would make it the latest known exposure of the gravel floor of the old channel, and therefore of considerable importance. It has revealed large quantities of Palaeolithic flints, which are some of the earliest of their type known. [4] It is described by Natural England as a "crucial site". [1]

The site is a long narrow strip of land, and there is a footpath through it from the lane to the farm.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Highlands Farm Pit citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Map of Highlands Farm Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Highlands Farm Pit (Quaternary of the Thames)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Key geological sites: South Oxfordshire". Oxford Geology Group. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

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Coordinates: 51°33′31″N1°29′19″W / 51.558718°N 1.488595°W / 51.558718; -1.488595

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