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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 67 SW 1570
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Post holes and pit with early Roman date, Springhead

Summary

Grid Reference:	TQ 6182 7256
Map Sheet:	TQ67SW
Parish:	GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT

Monument Types

PIT (Roman - 75 AD? to 125 AD?)
POST HOLE (Roman - 75 AD? to 125 AD?)

Full description

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Three post-holes and sub-rectangular pit were discovered during excavations at Springhead. They lay within the angle formed by ditch, this ditch possibly represents the northern corner of a large enclosure dating to the early Roman period. The post-holes are undated but the pit contained late 1st–early 2nd century pottery. Possibly all of these features were contemporary with the ditch, though this remains uncertain, as does their function. (1-2)

<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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2003, Channel Tunel Rail Link Archaeological works at Springhead Roman Town (ARC SPH00): interim fieldwork report (Unpublished document). SKE31600.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>XY	Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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. [Mapped feature: #106146 post holes and pit, ]
<2>	Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2003. Channel Tunel Rail Link Archaeological works at Springhead Roman Town (ARC SPH00): interim fieldwork report.

Related records

TQ 67 SW 1569

Part of: Possible enclosure ditch with early Roman date, Springhead (Monument)