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thumb Hill End Pit (also called Hill End Farm Pit or Hitch Wood Pit)〔 is a 0.7 hectare a nature reserve on the site of a former chalk pit, managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust in St Paul's Walden in North Hertfordshire. It has the largest colony of Azeca goodalli snails in Hertfordshire. Plants include viper's bugloss, cowslip and marjoram, there are butterflies such as common blue and gatekeeper, and many birds including woodpeckers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hill End Pit )〕 The site is a Regionally important geological site (RIGS), dating to the Turonian age of the late Cretaceous around 90 million years ago, and was formerly a Site of Special Scientific Interest. According to ''A Geological Conservation Strategy for Hertfordshire'', published by the Hertfordshire RIGS Group: :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 yielded more fossils of all groups (notably ammonites) than any other Chalk Rock locality apart from the Kensworth Chalk Pit GCR site, Bedfordshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chalk Places to Visit in Hertfordshire )〕 The site gives its name to the siliceous sponge genus ''Hillendia'', and is the type locality of the genus, and two fossil ammonite species, ''Subprionocyclus hitchinensis'' and ''Subprionocyclus branneri'' have been described from this site after being discovered there.〔 It is shown on the Natural England Magic map as one of the "Geological places to visit".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Magic map )〕 The site is located off a track leading from Hitchwood Lane to Hill End Farm Lane. It is difficult to find, but the site noticeboard is visible through a gap in the hedge on the left hand side of the track. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hill End Pit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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