Waveney Valley Field Trip – April 26th
SNS Geological Group
Led by Tim Holt-Wilson, the first of this year’s Suffolk Naturalists’ Society Geological Group field trips is on Saturday April 26th.
We will study terrace remnants and other Pleistocene sites along the Waveney valley. The first venue is Calke Wood, Rickinghall, a good example of a RIGS under sympathetic management. This has complex geological interest, showing Norwich Crag beneath Ingham Formation with a Valley Farm Soil overprint.
Other highlights include Diss Mere which contains the most complete Holocene sedimentary sequence in the UK, Hoxne Brick Pit the type-site for the Hoxnian interglacial and Homersfield Terrace 3 with associated cold-phase vertebrate fossils: mammoth, bison, woolly rhinoceros, horse, aurochs, giant deer, reindeer (specimens in Ipswich and in Norfolk Museums).
Meet at the lay-by on the A143 by Billingford ‘Horse shoes’, TM 165786 at 10.30 am.
Lunch stop at a local hostelry.
Stout footwear required.
