Entrance to Waverley Wood Site

Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 4 Mar 2012

This is a large site that houses a quarry and a waste disposal landfill site. It appears to be owned by Smiths Concrete who supply sand and gravel aggregates.It also has the Bubbenhall Landfill site , sometimes known as Glebe Farm PPC. The site is also of scientific interest because of the archaeological finds made here. It is an important reserve of an interglacial deposit, preserved beneath a local drift sequence. The interglacial beds occupy a channel cut in Mercia Mudstone bedrock. They are overlain by the Baginton-Beds sequence. In the interglacial sediments have been found plant remains such as pollen, and molluscs, vertebrate, and insect remains. The deposits are of high interest in establishing the sequence of glacial events within the British Isles and how this is related to Human occupation of which there is also evidence from the site. Stone tools, including four handaxes found at the site, are among the oldest found in Britain. These axes and other finds are on permanent display at the Warwickshire Museum.

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