Cropthorne New Inn Section

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

Cropthorne New Inn Section
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of SearchWorcestershire
Grid referenceSO996443
InterestGeological
Area0.12 hectares
Notification1991
Location mapMagic Map

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

References
  1. "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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