Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich
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| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
| File:Railway line, Stoke Park - geograph.org.uk - 1237008.jpg | |
| Location | Suffolk |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | TM 161 433[1] |
| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 2.2 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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Designated Sites View: Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ↑ "Map of Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ↑ "Stoke Tunnel (Pleistocene Vertebrata)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ "Stoke Tunnel (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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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