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| Tilton Cutting SSSI, Leicestershire |
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| Tilton Cutting SSSI, Leicestershire, is a disused
railway cutting with important exposures of Lower Jurassic sediments. The site
is particularly important for palaeontology and has yielded a range of fossil
ammonite, brachiopod and gastropod faunas.
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| The site had become very overgrown over the years and
much of the outcrop obscured. In February 2002, English Nature undertook face clearance
and re-profiling of a number of sections on the site, in partnership with the site owners,
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Several vertical sections have now been terraced
to provide access to higher parts of the section. |
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Tilton Cutting SSSI, showing terracing of outcrop created
during scrub clearance works. |
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| Photo: Mick Murphy, Natural England |
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