Cropthorne New Inn Section

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Cropthorne New Inn Section
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Location Worcestershire
Grid reference SO996443
InterestGeological
Area0.12 hectares
Notification 1991
Location map Magic Map

Cropthorne New Inn Section is a 0.12 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cropthorne in Worcestershire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [3]

The site dates to the Ipswichian interglacial (Marine Isotope Stage 5e) between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago. This was one of the warmest periods of the last half a million years, but there were no humans in Britain. The site has a rich array of mollusc and mammal fossils, including hippopotamus. There are a number of terraces of the River Avon laid down at different periods, and New Inn is a key site for determining their sequence, and for the Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Midlands generally. [1] [4] [5]

There is no public access to the site, which is a triangular area of scrub north of Main Road near the New Inn.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Cropthorne New Inn Section citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Map of Cropthorne New Inn Section". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Cropthorne, New Inn Section (Quaternary of Midlands - Avon)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Pettit, Paul; White, Mark (2012). The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. p. 291. ISBN   978-0-415-67455-3.
  5. ↑ Ashton, Nick; et al., eds. (2010). The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain. Elsevier. p. 128. ISBN   9780444535986.

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