Bobbitshole, Belstead

Site of Special Scientific Interest · 52.0295, 1.1319

Also within

Suffolk County

Condition (Natural England)

Favourable (1)
UnitFeatureConditionArea (ha)Assessed
TM149414 Favourable 1.71 2008-03-04

Geology & landscape

Geological Period: Quaternary

Landscape processes: Glacial

Description

Description This geological site is the type locality for the Ipswichian Last Interglacial, where during the excavation of the sewage works, organic lacustrine deposits provided a continuous record of sedimentation, vegetational history and non marine mollusca from the Wolstonian late glacial to the end of Ipswichian Interglacial subzone Ip IIb. A nationally important Pleistocene reference site.