Cropthorne New Inn Section

Cropthorne New Inn SectionSite of Special Scientific Interest

Location| Worcestershire
Grid reference| SO996443
Interest| Geological
Area| 0.12 hectares
Notification| 1991
Location map| Magic Map

Cropthorne New Inn Section is a 0.12-hectare (0.30-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cropthorne in Worcestershire.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]

The site dates to the Ipswichian interglacial (Marine Isotope Stage 5e) between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago. This was one of the warmest periods of the last half a million years, but there were no humans in Britain. The site has a rich array of mollusc and mammal fossils, including hippopotamus. There are a number of terraces of the River Avon laid down at different periods, and New Inn is a key site for determining their sequence, and for the Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Midlands generally.[1][4][5]

There is no public access to the site, which is a triangular area of scrub north of Main Road near the New Inn.

## See also[edit]

* List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Worcestershire

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## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Cropthorne New Inn Section citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
2. ^ "Map of Cropthorne New Inn Section". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
3. ^ "Cropthorne, New Inn Section (Quaternary of Midlands - Avon)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
4. ^ Pettit, Paul; White, Mark (2012). The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. p. 291\. ISBN 978-0-415-67455-3.
5. ^ Ashton, Nick; et al., eds. (2010). The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain. Elsevier. p. 128\. ISBN 9780444535986.

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