Dinton Quarry

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Dinton Quarry (grid reference SU006308) is a 3,000 square metre geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1990. This long-disused quarry of Middle Purbeck limestone was the main source of the late Jurassic fossil insects described by Brodie in 1845.

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Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire

Bratton Downs • Charnage Down Chalk Pit • Chilmark Quarries • Corsham Railway Cutting • Dead Maid Quarry • Dinton Quarry • Dinton Railway Cutting  • Fyfield Down • Great Quarry, Swindon • Gripwood Quarry • Kellaways - West Tytherton, River Avon • Lady Down Quarry • The New Forest • Okus Quarry • Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon • Piggledene • Seend Cleeve Quarry • Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting • Stanton St. Quintin Quarry & Motorway Cutting • Steeple Ashton • Stert Brook Exposure • Teffont Evias Quarry / Lane Cutting • Upper Chicksgrove Quarry • West Harnham Chalk Pit • Westbury Ironstone Quarry • Wootton Bassett Mud Spring
Neighbouring areas: Avon • Berkshire • Dorset • Gloucestershire • Hampshire • Oxfordshire • Somerset
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Coordinates: 51.07652° N 1.99281° W