Red House Farm Pit

Red House Farm Pit
Site of Special Scientific Interest
	Location of Red House Farm Pit.
Area of search	Suffolk
Grid reference	TM 435 547
Interest	Geological
Area	0.5 hectares
Notification date	1985
Location map	Magic Map

Red House Farm Pit is a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wickham Market in Suffolk. It is a Geological Conservation Review site, and in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

This pit exposes a 3.5 metres (11 feet) section of the sandwave facies of the Pliocene Coralline Crag Formation. It has many bryozoan fossils.

There is access to the site by a track from Lambert's Lane.

References

1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Red House Farm Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
↑ "Map of Red House Farm Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
↑ "Red House Farm Pit, Iken (Neogene)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
↑ "Suffolk Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan 2013–2018" (PDF). Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB. p. 76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
↑ "Red House Farm Pit citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2017.