| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
 | |
| Location | Essex |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | TQ625783 |
| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 0.4 hectares |
| Notification | 1986 |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Globe Pit is a 0.4-hectare (0.99-acre) geologicalSite of Special Scientific Interest inLittle Thurrock inEssex.[1][2] It is aGeological Conservation Review site.[3]
Natural England describes Globe Pit as "an important site for the interrelationship of archaeology with geology since it is vital in the correlation of theLower Palaeolithic chronology with thePleistocene Thames Terrace sequence". Interpretation of the site is controversial, and it is therefore important for future research. There is a considerable quantity ofClactonian flint tools,[1] dated by Paul Pettit and Mark White toMIS 10 to 9, around 350,000 years ago.[4][5]
In the early 20th Century, the site was used forallotments which were recorded in two oil paintings byFrancis van der Weegen in 1918 and 1928.[6] These paintings have been described as 'rare examples of a very small number of pre-1939 depictions of English allotments'.[7]
The site is on private land with no public access.
