Vale Farm

Sutton, Suffolk (TM 317456)

Located about 1 km NNW of the village of Shottisham, this pit consists of a single linear face exposing up to 4 m of Red Crag; a nearby borehole proved more than 15.5 m of Red Crag in the area. Three main units can be distinguished: unit 1 consists of planar cross-bedded, shelly sands merging upwards into horizontally bedded sands; unit 2 is a trough cross-bedded discontinuous lag of shell fragments with flint pebbles and drapes and lenses of mud; while unit 3 comprises a sheet of coarse-grained, bioturbated shelly and pebbly sands cutting down into unit 2.

Adapted from Daley and Balson, 1999. See also Dixon, 2005.

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith