Neutral Farm Pit, Butley
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Neutral Farm Pit, Butley is a 1.1-hectare (2.7-acre) 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]
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
| |
| Location | Suffolk |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | TM 371 510[1] |
| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 1.1 hectares[1] |
| Notification | 1985[1] |
| Location map | Magic Map |
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.
