Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Suffolk |
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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.