Heacham Brick Pit

Site of Special Scientific Interest · 52.8989, 0.4948

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Norfolk County

Condition (Natural England)

Unfavourable No Change (1)
UnitFeatureConditionArea (ha)Assessed
TF679364 — Unfavourable No Change 0.82 2022-03-30

Geology & landscape

Geological Period: Cretaceous

Description

Area, 0.87 hectares 2.15 ac Description Heacham Brick Pit is a locality which affords the only opportunity to examine the Lower Cretaceous Snettisham Clay. This has yielded distinctive Lower Barremian ammonite faunas. A key site in the assessment of regional stratigraphy and in correlations of Lower Cretaceous strata showing a facies rarely exposed and of limited areal extent.