Tags: Site Of Special Scientific Interest.
Boxgrove Quarry is a gravel quarry and Lower Palaeolithic archaeological site at Boxgrove in the English county of West Sussex. It has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest. When excavations began in 1983 flint tools 500000 years old were discovered which at that time was the oldest evidence of humans ever discovered in the UK. In 2005 flint tools 700000 years old were discovered at Pakefield and in 2010 flint tools at least 800000 years old were discovered at Happisburgh.
