Site Documentation form

Name of site

NGR

Size/dimensions of exposure

Size of whole site

Access route(s)

Accessibility -e.g. suitable for disabled or public/difficult/site kept locked

Nearest car parking

Ownership (to be kept confidential unless permission is given)

Permission to visit to be obtained from: (to be kept confidential unless permission is given)

Hazards - e.g. vertical faces, lagoons, tides

Safety/PPE requirements - e.g. hard hats, footwear, high visibility waistcoat, goggles.

Level of educational use: public, KS2, KS3, GCSE, 'A' level, degree, research only

Research potential

Future conservational/educational potential

Planning status

Risks to the conservation of the site

Should hammering and collecting be encouraged, permitted, discouraged or banned?

Have we got co-operation of owner?

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Site Name:

Grading on a scale of 1 to 10:

Stratigraphy:

Unique stratigraphy - the type exposure of a named bed/member

Regional variation in rock type or sequence

Lithology:

Unique rock type

Fossils:

Fossils are common

Famous for fossil collecting

Unique fossils found here

Good, easy fossil collecting

Palaeogeography

Sites which show variation in facies in the area

Structural geology

Sites with folding, faulting etc.

Sites providing evidence of regional structures

Geomorphology:

Larger scale features

Important evidence exposed

Scenic

Sites/areas of scenic beauty

Viewpoint

Educational

Suitable for teaching at: KS2

Suitable for teaching at KS3

Suitable for teaching at GCSE

Suitable for teaching at 'A' level

Suitable for teaching at degree

Suitable for public interpretation

Relatively safe for educational use

Quaternary/Holocene studies

Unique sites

Importance evidence exposed

Pollen record

Fossils

Sites with research potential

Unique sites, not fully researched, and should be conserved at least until fully studied.

Sites that provide evidence of regional variation of a rock type/sequence

Suitable for Degree/post-graduate level research training

Sites of historical importance

By association with a event in the history of geology

By association with a famous person in the history of geology

Because of former research and discoveries

Industrial / geoheritage (e.g. early iron ore working)

Complimentary sites

Sites that will relieve pressure on important research sites and thus protect them.

Another exposure of named strata

Areas of potential interest

Adjacent to previously lost site

Potential for unique exposures in future

Potential for boreholes/research in the future

Environmental

Shows an effect of geology on botany

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Name of site:

Details of Unique/important Features

Bibliography

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Name of site:

Date of designation as a RIGS

Name of relevant planning authority

Date that Planning Authority informed of RIGS status

Has status been recognised by planning authority and incorporated in to plans?

Date and details of conservation work undertaken

Dates and details of Visits

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Map of site and surrounding area. (Page 5 of 5)