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Dundry Hill

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31: 223:, because of the number of fossils in the inferior oolite. The Main Road Quarry exposes a fine section in the Middle and Upper Inferior Oolite, with the rocks lying stratigraphically below them visible at 216: 124: 424: 375: 160:: it includes farmland, a small number of houses and a church. It stretches east–west for some two miles. Most of the hill is within the district of 328: 312: 209: 118: 419: 165: 40: 30: 414: 429: 74: 64: 36: 339: 260: 367: 192: 224: 281: 86: 308: 227:. The former characterised by a typically southern English-Normandy fauna, including the rich 184: 240: 236: 137: 132: 161: 91: 408: 107: 79: 220: 196: 231:
occurrences of the "Brown iron-shot", and the latter by contrasting faunas of
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aspect. This contrast is direct evidence for movements of the Mendip Axis in
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times, making this an outstanding site for its bearing on studies of
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On the western side of the hill is a spring which becomes the
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at the top of Dundry Hill with the top of the tower of
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Trig point
Church of St Michael, Dundry
Elevation
Prominence
Parent peak
Beacon Batch
Listing
Marilyn
Mendip Hills
England
OS grid
ST553667
Topo map
OS
Bristol
England
North Somerset
Bath and North East Somerset
Bristol
Dundry
Maes Knoll
Norton Malreward
hillfort
Wansdyke
Chew Valley
Land Yeo
Dundry Main Road South Quarry
hectare
geological Site of Special Scientific Interest

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