Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich

Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich is a 2.2 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ipswich in Suffolk.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3][4]

Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search	Suffolk
Grid reference	TM 161 433[1]
Interest	Geological
Area	2.2 hectares[1]
Notification	1990[1]
Location map	Magic Map

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. "Designated Sites View: Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
2. "Map of Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
3. "Stoke Tunnel (Pleistocene Vertebrata)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
4. "Stoke Tunnel (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
5. "Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
6. 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.