Globe Pit
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
 | |
| Location | Essex |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | TQ625783 |
| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 0.4 hectares |
| Notification | 1986 |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Globe Pitis a 0.4-hectare (0.99-acre) geologicalSite of Special Scientific InterestinLittle ThurrockinEssex.[1][2]It is aGeological Conservation Reviewsite.[3]
Natural Englanddescribes Globe Pit as "an important site for the interrelationship of archaeology with geology since it is vital in the correlation of theLower Palaeolithicchronology with thePleistoceneThames Terrace sequence ". Interpretation of the site is controversial, and it is therefore important for future research. There is a considerable quantity ofClactonianflint tools,[1]dated by Paul Pettit and Mark White toMIS10 to 9, around 350,000 years ago.[4][5]
In the early 20th Century, the site was used forallotmentswhich were recorded in two oil paintings byFrancis van der Weegenin 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.
References
[edit]- ^ab"Globe Pit citation"(PDF).Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 4 March 2016.Retrieved29 April2016.
- ^"Map of Globe Pit".Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England.Retrieved29 April2016.
- ^"Globe Pit, Little Thurrock (Quaternary of the Thames)".Joint Nature Conservation Committee.Retrieved29 April2016.
- ^Pettit, Paul; White, Mark (2012).The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World.Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 181, 183.ISBN978-0-415-67455-3.
- ^Terry Carney,Fifty Years of Thurrock Archaeology(inThurrock Gold,Thurrock Local History Society, 2002)
- ^Lobley, Phil (2023). "Francis van der Weegen and the Globe Works paintings".Panorama - the Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society(60): 38–45.
- ^Cosby, Julia; Hunter, Heather; Lobley, Phil; Way, Twigs, eds. (2022).Lost Gardens of Thurrock.Essex Gardens Trust. p. 85.ISBN9780956519818.
