Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl

Coordinates: 51°16′50″N 2°39′24″W / 51.2806°N 2.6566°W / 51.2806; -2.6566
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Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl
Notification
1987 (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
barite (barium sulphate), sphalerite (zinc sulphide) and galena (lead sulphide)."[1]

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

  1. ^ a b "Wurt Pit And Devil's Punchbowl" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
  2. ^

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