Downfield Pit is a 3.6-hectare (8.9-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Ware in Hertfordshire.

It is in the Geological Conservation Review in the Thames Pleistocene section, and the local planning authority is East Hertfordshire District Council.

[1][2] The site provides an example of the complex sequence of Pleistocene gravels and clays laid down by the River Thames when it flowed through the Vale of St Albans before the river was diverted south by the Anglian ice age around 450,000 years ago.

[3] Downfield Pit is a key site linking the Thames and East Anglia regions during the Middle Pleistocene.

The northern area is on a steeply sloping boundary of the course and the southern one is part of the course.