Snowdon Hill Quarry

Snowdon Hill Quarry

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location within Somerset
Location	Somerset
Grid reference	ST312089
Coordinates	50°52′32″N 2°58′45″W / 50.87548°N 2.97922°W / 50.87548; -2.97922
Interest	Geological
Area	0.6 hectares (0.0060 km2; 0.0023 sq mi)
Notification	1963 (1963)
Natural England website

Snowdon Hill Quarry (grid reference ST312089) is a 0.6 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Chard in Somerset, notified in 1963.

The site shows rock exposures through the Upper Greensand and Chalk which contain fossil crustaceans which are both unique and exceptionally well-preserved and support study of palaeontology in Britain. The unit has been dated to the subdivision of the Chalk known as the Turrilites acutus Zone, named after one of the characteristic fossils.^[1]