Globe Pit, Greenhithe was a large sand and gravel pit located on the Boyn Hill/Orsett Heath Terrace about 800 m northwest of Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe and adjacent to Ingress Vale. It closed prior to 1939 and the site is now a rough greenspace.

Smith and Dewey (1913) reported a confused, barely stratified mass of sand, loam and gravel resting on an uneven and channelled surface of Chalk and Thanet Sand, which they supposed had been deposited by a turbulent waterbody, although later work by Dewey recorded a more coherent sequence of bedded gravel overlain by loam (brickearth).

Most of the artefacts from Greenhithe were reported as coming from the loam (brickearth) at the top of the sequence, with a small number from the gravel (Priest 1912; Dewey 1932). The handaxes are generally ovates and cordates, including twisted examples, generally in fresh condition although strongly white patinated. They strongly resemble those from Dartford and the Phase 3 deposits at Swanscombe.

Dewey, H. (1932) The Palaeolithic deposits of the Lower Thames Valley. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 88:35–56.

Priest, S. (1912) Report of an excursion to Greenhithe. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 23: 190–194.

Smith, R.A. & Dewey, H. (1913) Stratification at Swanscombe: report on excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H.M. Geological Survey. Archaeologia 64: 177–204.