Orford Lodge

Chillesford, Suffolk (TM 390508)

This pit is excavated into the flank of a small hill about 1.5 km south of Chillesford. About 4 m of Red Crag can be seen, divisible into three units: unit 1 consists of medium to coarse, tabular cross-bedded sands containing abundant shell fragments; unit 2, which truncates unit 1, is a lens of bioturbated finer-grained, sands with mud drapes; while unit 3 comprises trough cross-bedded shelly sands with a pebbly lag of flints, phosphatic pebbles and clay clasts at its base. The sequence can be interpreted as shallowing upwards.

Adapted from Daley and Balson, 1999.

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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