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Goldsands Road Pit is a 1.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Southminster in Essex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
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.
The site is on private land with no public access.
References
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