Maldon Cutting

Protected area in Essex, England

Maldon CuttingSite of Special Scientific Interest

Location| Essex
Grid reference| TL 842068
Interest| Geological
Area| 0.1 hectares
Notification| 1986
Location map| Magic Map

Maldon Cutting is a 0.1-hectare (0.25-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Maldon in Essex.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]

The site is a former railway cutting which is the type locality for the Maldon Till, which dates to the Pleistocene ice age. It was previously thought to represent a separate advance of the ice sheet, but in the light of later work it was concluded that it is an outlier of the till which covers much of central and northern Essex. Finds include a flint hand axe.[4]

The overgrown site is on private land with no public access.

## References

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1. ^ "Maldon Cutting citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
2. ^ "Map of Maldon Cutting". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
3. ^ "Maldon Railway Cutting (Quaternary of the Thames)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
4. ^ "Maldon Railway Cutting SSSI". The Essex Field Club. Retrieved 10 July 2016.

51°43′44″N 0°39′50″E﻿ / ﻿51.729°N 0.664°E﻿ / 51.729; 0.664

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