Chillesford Church Pit

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Suffolk
Grid reference	TM 382 522[1]
Interest	Geological
Area	1.1 hectares[1]
Notification	1986[1]
Location map	Magic Map

Chillesford Church Pit is a 1.1-hectare (2.7-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Chillesford, south of Saxmundham in Suffolk.^[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site,^[3] and it is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.^[4]

This site has deposits dating to the Early Pleistocene Bramertonian Stage, around 2.4 to 1.8 million years ago. Fossils of molluscs and pollen indicate a temperate climate dating to the Chillesford Crag formation. The Chillesford Clay and Chillesford Crag are parts for the Norwich Crag Formation.^[5]

The site is private land with no public access.

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