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This pit is of national stratigraphic and international palaeontological importance, but has lost its original SSSI status and is now very degraded. It is the type locality of the Hitch Wood
Hardground at the top of the Chalk Rock. This hardground is exceptionally fossiliferous here, and has probably
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yielded more fossils of all groups (notably ammonites) than any other Chalk Rock locality apart from the
Kensworth Chalk Pit GCR site, Bedfordshire.
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have been described from this site after being discovered there.
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Magic map as one of the "Geological places to visit".
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The site gives its name to the siliceous sponge genus
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241:"Chalk Places to Visit in Hertfordshire"
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84:Regionally important geological site
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267:"Magic map"
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722:Categories
692:51°54′03″N
606:Hillingdon
474:Fox Covert
428:Willowmead
373:Balls Wood
345:Long Deans
138:References
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