Munday's Hill Quarry

This is a large quarry that has been worked since 1925 and, over the decades, it has revealed excellent and unusually complete Lower Cretaceous successions. Formerly known as Garside's Pit, a typical succession (based on Shephard-Thorn et al., 1994), with maximum stratigraphic thicknesses indicated, comprises:

• Gault Clay (10m), including the ‘Cirripede Bed’ locally near the base
• Shenley Limestone† (0.1m)
• Woburn Sands ‘Red Sands’ (4m)
• Woburn Sands ‘Silty Beds’ (4.5m)
• Woburn Sands ‘Silver Sands’ (10m)
• Woburn Sands ‘Brown Sands’ (5m)

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