Cherry Hinton Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interest situated to the south of Cherry Hinton in the county of Cambridgeshire.
It is managed as a nature reserve by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough. The Trust's sites are known as Limekiln Close, West Pit and East Pit. In 2009, East Pit was opened to the public. Archaeologists have discovered human bones, Roman and Iron Age pottery fragments, and the remains of an Iron Age ditch on the site.
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