Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich

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Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Railway line, Stoke Park - geograph.org.uk - 1237008.jpg
Location Suffolk
Grid reference TM 161 433 [1]
InterestGeological
Area2.2 hectares [1]
Notification 1990 [1]
Location map Magic Map

Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich is a 2.2-hectare (5.4-acre) 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.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Map of Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Stoke Tunnel (Pleistocene Vertebrata)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "Stoke Tunnel (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Pettitt, Paul; White, Mark (2012). The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 211–212, 246. ISBN   978-0-415-67455-3.

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