Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich

{{Short description|Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ipswich, Suffolk}}

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|name= Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich

|aos= Suffolk

|interest=Geological

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|area= 2.2 hectares

|notifydate= 1990

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Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich is a {{convert|2.2|hectare|acre|adj=on}} geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ipswich in Suffolk.{{cite web|url= https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1002329&SiteName=stoke&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=|title=Designated Sites View: Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich | series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|access-date = 12 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271002329%27 |title=Map of Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|access-date= 12 June 2017}} It is a Geological Conservation Review site.{{cite web|url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4174&gcr=1195 |series=Geological Conservation Review |title= Stoke Tunnel (Pleistocene Vertebrata) |publisher=Joint Nature Conservation Committee|access-date= 3 May 2017}}{{cite web|url= http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4174&gcr=600 |series=Geological Conservation Review |title= Stoke Tunnel (Quaternary of East Anglia) |publisher=Joint Nature Conservation Committee|access-date= 3 May 2017}}

This fossiliferous site dates to the late Marine Isotope Stage 7, around 190,000 years ago. It is part of a high level terrace of the River Orwell and it has European pond tortoises, lions, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, horses and voles.{{cite web|url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002329.pdf|title=Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich citation|series=Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|access-date=12 June 2017|archive-date=4 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504195151/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002329.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|first1=Paul |last1=Pettitt|first2=Mark|last2=White |title=The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World |publisher= Routledge|location = Abingdon, UK|year=2012 |isbn= 978-0-415-67455-3|pages=211–212, 246}}

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