Ham Green SSSI () is a 1.1
hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of
Ham Green, North Somerset,
notified in 1990.
This is a
Geological Conservation Review site.
The site shows a section through red-brown, gritty, stony silts, with abundant
Greensand chert
Pleistocene sediments. These deposits appear to be heavily cryoturbated terrace gravels of presumed
fluvial
In geography and geology, fluvial processes are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them. When the stream or rivers are associated with glaciers, ice sheets, or ice caps, the term glaciofluvial or fluviog ...
origin, although a fluvio-glacial origin has also been suggested.
English Nature citation sheet for the site
(accessed 9 January 2008)
A number of Acheulian
Acheulean (; also Acheulian and Mode II), from the French ''acheuléen'' after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand axes" associated ...
handaxes have been found in the area.
References
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1990
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