Hurst Hill, Oxfordshire
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
.jpg) | |
| Location | Oxfordshire |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | SP 476 041[1] |
| Interest | Biological Geological |
| Area | 20.6 hectares (51 acres)[1] |
| Notification | 1986[1] |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Hurst Hill or Cumnor Hurst is a 20.6-hectare (51-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Oxford in Oxfordshire.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]
The site is owned by All Souls College, Oxford,[4] and its mosses and liverworts have been monitored for more than fifty years. The hill is also important geologically. In 1879 a fossil of a Camptosaurus prestwichii, a large herbivorous dinosaur dating to the Upper Jurassic 153 million years ago, was found on the site.[5] The fossil belongs to a typically North African genus, and provides evidence of a land bridge across the proto-Atlantic in the Late Jurassic.[6]
The hill is mentioned in Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy.[4]
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
Cover photo is available under {{::mainImage.info.license.name || 'Unknown'}} license.
Cover photo is available under {{::mainImage.info.license.name || 'Unknown'}} license.
Credit:
(see original file).
