Shotover iron sand field, Muswell Hill, near Brill
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Image: © David Hawgood Taken: 3 Jun 2006
At Brill and the top of Muswell Hill there are small areas of red soil, the same as at Shotover near Oxford. This is a cretaceous greensand; lower land around is older clay.