Creeting St Mary Pits

Creeting St Mary Pits is a 5.4-hectare (13-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south Creeting St Mary in Suffolk, England.^[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.^[3]

Creeting St Mary Pits

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Suffolk
Grid reference	TM 096 554[1]
Interest	Geological
Area	5.4 hectares[1]
Notification	1987[1]
Location map	Magic Map

These former quarries are the type site for the 'Creeting Sands', which are believed to be intertidal and shallow marine deposits from an early Pleistocene interglacial. It is described by Natural England as a key stratigraphic site.^[4]

This site is in three areas, and there is public access to the southern one, but not to the northern ones.