Goldsands Road Pit
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
 | |
| Location | Essex |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | TQ 960990 |
| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 1.3 hectares |
| Notification | 1986 |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Goldsands Road Pit is a 1.3-hectare (3.2-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Southminster in Essex.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]
This site provides the earliest evidence of an ancient course of the combined Thames and Medway rivers, which flowed north-east across eastern Essex in the late Anglian period around 400,000 years ago.[4]
The site is on private land with no public access.
References
[edit]- ^ "Goldsands Road Pit citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
- ^ "Map of Goldsands Road Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
- ^ "Southminster, Goldsands Road Pit (Quaternary of the Thames)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
- ^ "Maldon". GeoEssex. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
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