Globe Pit

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Globe Pit
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Location Essex
Grid reference TQ625783
InterestGeological
Area0.4 hectares
Notification 1986
Location map Magic Map

Globe Pit is a 0.4-hectare (0.99-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Little Thurrock in Essex. [1] [2] It is a Geological 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 the Lower Palaeolithic chronology with the Pleistocene Thames Terrace sequence". Interpretation of the site is controversial, and it is therefore important for future research. There is a considerable quantity of Clactonian flint tools, [1] dated by Paul Pettit and Mark White to MIS 10 to 9, around 350,000 years ago. [4] [5]

In the early 20th Century, the site was used for allotments which were recorded in two oil paintings by Francis 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.

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Francis van der Weegen was a Dutch artist who worked in the Netherlands and England primarily painting landscapes. He has five works listed by ArtUK. A further four works are recorded as being sold at auction.

References

  1. 1 2 "Globe Pit citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Map of Globe Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Globe Pit, Little Thurrock (Quaternary of the Thames)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Pettit, Paul; White, Mark (2012). The British Palaeolithic: Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 181, 183. ISBN   978-0-415-67455-3.
  5. ↑ Terry Carney, Fifty Years of Thurrock Archaeology (in Thurrock Gold, Thurrock Local History Society, 2002)
  6. ↑ Lobley, Phil (2023). "Francis van der Weegen and the Globe Works paintings". Panorama - the Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society (60): 38–45.
  7. ↑ Cosby, Julia; Hunter, Heather; Lobley, Phil; Way, Twigs, eds. (2022). Lost Gardens of Thurrock. Essex Gardens Trust. p. 85. ISBN   9780956519818.

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