Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Essex |
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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.