Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl
Notification 1987 | | |
Natural England website |
Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl (
notified
in 1987.
Natural England describes the site as:
"This site consists of the two largest subsidence depressions in the Mendips, formed by the underlying
silica at Wurt Pit."[1]"The silica-enrichment of the limestones and clays at Wurt Pit (known as the 'Harptree Beds', of early
Wade and Wade, in their 1929 book Somerset, described the Devil's Punch Bowl as one of the most notable Swallet Holes on the Mendips[2]
References
- ^ a b "Wurt Pit And Devil's Punchbowl" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
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