Cold Ash Quarry
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| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
| File:Cold Ash Quarry.jpg View towards Cold Ash Quarry | |
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| Location | Berkshire |
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| Grid reference | SU 500 714[1] |
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| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 0.4 hectares (0.99 acres)[1] |
| Notification | 1984[1] |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Cold Ash Quarry is a 0.4-hectare (0.99-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Newbury in Berkshire.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3][4]
The quarry is unique in Britain for the collection of fossil plants and insects which occur in a layer of silt and clay within the Reading Beds. The fossils date to about 60 million years ago. The fossil flora consists of well-preserved angiosperm leaves, in some of these fossils there is evidence of the activity of contemporary leaf-miner insects. This is the only location in Britain at which fossil leaf-miner activity have been discovered.[5]
The site is private land with no public access.
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