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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1560 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Neonatal burials within 2nd century Roman Temple at Springhead |
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Summary
In the south-west corner of the area in front of the temple was approximately one-third of a large storage vessel lying on its side and containing the remains of a neonate burial (pot burial 12224; Pl 2.22). This pot appears to have been broken in antiquity and re-used as a container for the burial, probably placed in a shallow hollow in the top of earlier ditch 12670. The disturbed remains of a second neonate (12214) found close by are thought possibly to derive from the same pot burial. (1)
Possibly contemporary with this were the remains of three neonates, two (12307 and 12310) recovered from the upper part of the infill deposits in two of the rooms in the east wing of the temple, with another (12409) from similar deposits to the north of the central room. (1)
Location accurate to 2m based on available information.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6168 7263 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | SOUTHFLEET, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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In the south-west corner of the area in front of the temple was approximately one-third of a large storage vessel lying on its side and containing the remains of a neonate burial (pot burial 12224; Pl 2.22). This pot appears to have been broken in antiquity and re-used as a container for the burial, probably placed in a shallow hollow in the top of earlier ditch 12670. The disturbed remains of a second neonate (12214) found close by are thought possibly to derive from the same pot burial. (1)
Possibly contemporary with this were the remains of three neonates, two (12307 and 12310) recovered from the upper part of the infill deposits in two of the rooms in the east wing of the temple, with another (12409) from similar deposits to the north of the central room. (1)
Location accurate to 2m based on available information.
<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2010, Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document). SKE31245.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010. Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape. |
Related records
| TQ 76 SW 1384 | Part of: 2nd century Roman temple preserved beneath slip-road, Springhead (Monument) |
