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Hampton Rocks Cutting

Coordinates: 51°23′53″N 2°19′09″W / 51.39800°N 2.31906°W / 51.39800; -2.31906
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Hampton Rocks Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Hampton Rocks Cutting is located in Somerset
Hampton Rocks Cutting
Location within Somerset
LocationAvon
Grid referenceST779666
Coordinates51°23′53″N 2°19′09″W / 51.39800°N 2.31906°W / 51.39800; -2.31906
InterestGeological
Area1.3 hectares (0.013 km2; 0.0050 sq mi)
Notification1990 (1990)
Natural England website

Hampton Rocks Cutting (grid reference ST779666) is a 1.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Bathampton, Somerset, notified in 1990.

The site is listed in the Geological Conservation Review, for its exposure of Pleistocene rocks made up of coarse fluvial gravels showing scour-and-fill structures and planar bedding. Their sedimentology gives a clear indication that the deposits were laid down under 'cold-stage' conditions, probably during the Devensian glacial period.[1]

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