Hastingford Cutting
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Hastingford Cutting is a 0.05 hectare (0.12 acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest
in East Sussex
, England
. The site was notified in 1990 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
.
A laneside exposure of the Hastings Beds Group here shows 5 m of the top Ashdown
Sand Formation and 0.75 m of the basal Wadhurst Clay Formation. The site is
important for showing a different fluviatile facies in the top Ashdown beds from that
at Brede
(31 km east south east).
Coarse sandstone with siliceous pebbles and fossil charcoal fragments fill a channel,
which is interpreted as part of a braided river system feeding sediment into the Weald Basin.
The whole is overstepped by the Top Ashdown Pebble Bed horizon followed by the
sandstones and clays of the Wadhurst Clay Formation interpreted as a
lake/lagoon shoreface like the sequence at the Brede site.
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
in East Sussex
East Sussex
East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel.-History:...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The site was notified in 1990 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom and was implemented to comply with the Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds...
.
A laneside exposure of the Hastings Beds Group here shows 5 m of the top Ashdown
Sand Formation and 0.75 m of the basal Wadhurst Clay Formation. The site is
important for showing a different fluviatile facies in the top Ashdown beds from that
at Brede
Brede
Brede is the name for several places, among others:* the River Brede in East Sussex, England* Brede, East Sussex, a village near the River Brede* Brede, Denmark, a suburb of the Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality...
(31 km east south east).
Coarse sandstone with siliceous pebbles and fossil charcoal fragments fill a channel,
which is interpreted as part of a braided river system feeding sediment into the Weald Basin.
The whole is overstepped by the Top Ashdown Pebble Bed horizon followed by the
sandstones and clays of the Wadhurst Clay Formation interpreted as a
lake/lagoon shoreface like the sequence at the Brede site.