Traveller's Rest Pit
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Traveller's Rest Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interest
, or SSSI in the city of Cambridge
, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom . It is approximately 2.18 hectares in size.
This is a site recognized for its fossiliferous gravels and sediments which are likely to have originated in the Wolstonian Stage of the Pleistocene
Period . The site is also adjacent to the offices of the United Nation Environmental Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
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...
, or SSSI in the city of Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom . It is approximately 2.18 hectares in size.
This is a site recognized for its fossiliferous gravels and sediments which are likely to have originated in the Wolstonian Stage of the Pleistocene
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
Period . The site is also adjacent to the offices of the United Nation Environmental Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre.