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Shepton Montague Railway Cutting

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Grid reference
  
ST686316

Area
  
2 ha

Notification
  
1992

Interest
  
Geological

Area of search
  
Somerset

Shepton Montague Railway Cutting

Shepton Montague Railway Cutting (grid reference ST686316) is a 1.61 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Shepton Montague in Somerset, notified in 1992.

Shepton Montague Railway Cutting, which was part of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, exposes the most important known section of Fuller's Earth Rock (Middle Jurassic) in England. The succession ranges from the upper part of the Lower Fuller's Earth Clay up to the Rugitela Beds.

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