Dinton Quarry

United Kingdom

Dinton Quarry (grid reference SU006308) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire with an area of 3,000 square metres (32, 000 sq ft), notified in 1990. This long-disused quarry of Middle Purbeck limestone was the main source of the late Jurassic fossil insects described by Brodie in 1845.

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