Walk up to the quarry workings and follow the footpath signs over the conveyor belt.

These workings are operated by Smiths concrete, who quarry gravel and sand on the site. This is a very flat area with few exposed areas of geology, so a lot of what we know about the area is thanks to the quarry uncovering specimens.

The gravels quarried here are unusual because of their age. They were deposited here before the Ice Age and are known as the Walthstonian Sequence.

In the base of the gravel pits is red clay that is from the Triassic period, about 220 million years old. Called the Mercia Mudstone, it suggests Warwickshire may have been covered in dry salty barren dusk all those years ago.

Note the derelict farm buildings on the left. Agriculture was the land use before the quarry.