Dundry Main Road South Quarry

Dundry Main Road South Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A slab of Dundry stone in the churchyard of the Church of St Michael, Dundry
Shown within Somerset
Area of Search	Avon
Grid reference	ST566654
Coordinates	51°23′10″N 2°37′30″W / 51.38598°N 2.62506°W / 51.38598; -2.62506Coordinates: 51°23′10″N 2°37′30″W / 51.38598°N 2.62506°W / 51.38598; -2.62506
Interest	Geological
Area	1.8 acres (0.0073 km²; 0.0028 sq mi)
Notification	1974 (1974)
Natural England website

Dundry Main Road South Quarry (grid reference ST566654) is a 0.7 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of East Dundry, North Somerset, notified in 1974.

The quarry was cited in the last century by d'Orbigny as the English "type section" for the Inferior Oolite. Dundry has long been a famous palaeontological and stratigraphic locality. The type locality for many species of molluscs and brachiopods, as well as other lesser groups, it is renowned as one of the world's most fossiliferous exposures with well over two hundred species recorded. The Main Road Quarry exposes a fine section in the Middle and Upper Inferior Oolite,^[1] with the rocks lying stratigraphically below them visible at Barns Batch Spinney. The former characterised by a typically southern English-Normandy fauna, including the rich ammonite occurrences of the "Brown iron-shot", and the latter by contrasting faunas of Cotswold aspect. This contrast is direct evidence for movements of the Mendip Axis in Middle Jurassic times, making this an outstanding site for its bearing on studies of palaeogeography.^[2]

References

↑ Haslett, Simon K. (2010). Somerset Landscapes: Geology and landforms. Usk: Blackbarn Books. pp. 92–96. ISBN 9781456416317.
↑ "Dundry Main Road South Quarry" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 2006-07-10.

Chew Valley

Towns and villages:	Belluton Bishop Sutton Blagdon Burnett Cameley Camerton Chelwood Chew Magna Chew Stoke Chewton Keynsham Chewton Mendip Clutton Compton Dando Compton Martin East Harptree High Littleton Hinton Blewett Hunstrete Keynsham Litton Marksbury Nempnett Thrubwell Norton Malreward Pensford Publow Regil Stanton Drew Stanton Prior Stowey Temple Cloud Timsbury Ubley West Harptree Winford Woollard

Reservoirs:	Blagdon Lake Chew Magna Reservoir Chew Valley Lake Litton Reservoirs

Rivers:	River Chew River Yeo

SSSIs:	Barns Batch Spinney Blagdon Lake Burledge Hill Chew Valley Lake Compton Martin Ochre Mine Dundry Main Road South Quarry Emborough Quarries Folly Farm Harptree Combe Hartcliff Rocks Quarry Lamb Leer Lulsgate Quarry Plaster's Green Meadows Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl

Open Access Land	Burledge Hill Knowle Hill Round Hill (Folly Farm)

Councils:	Bath and North East Somerset Mendip North Somerset

Surrounding areas:	Dundry Down Lulsgate Plateau Mendip Hills Yeo Valley

Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon

Aust Cliff Avon Gorge Banwell Caves Banwell Ochre Caves Barnhill Quarry Barns Batch Spinney Bickley Wood Bleadon Hill Bourne Bowlditch Quarry Brinkmarsh Quarry Brown's Folly Buckover Road Cutting Burrington Combe Cattybrook Brickpit Clevedon Shore Compton Martin Ochre Mine Court Hill Cullimore's Quarry Damery Road Section Dundry Main Road South Quarry Gordano Valley Ham Green Hampton Rocks Cutting Hartcliff Rocks Quarry Hawkesbury Quarry Hinton Charterhouse Pit Hinton Hill, Wellow Holly Lane Huish Colliery Quarry Kenn Church, Kenn Pier & Yew Tree Farm Kilmersdon Road Quarry Lower Woods Lulsgate Quarry Middle Hope Newton St Loe Nightingale Valley North Road Quarry, Bath Portishead Pier to Black Nore Quarry Steps, Durdham Down Severn Estuary Slickstones Quarry, Cromhall Spring Cove Cliffs Stidham Farm Tytherington Quarry Weston-in-Gordano Winterbourne Railway Cutting Writhlington

Neighbouring areas Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire

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