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Monument details

Summary

In an area just to the north of the road which leads towards the Ritual pools, three Early Roman neonate burials were discovered during excavations at Springhead between 2000 and 2002. These are possibly associated with a circular, clay floored structure situated nearby. (location acccurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• BURIAL (Roman - 50 AD? to 100 AD?)

Full description

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In an area just to the north of the road which leads towards the Ritual pools, three Early Roman neonate burials were discovered during excavations at Springhead between 2000 and 2002. The three burials were dispersed, two in shallow graves one in a pit. All of the features to the north of the road can probably be assigned to the later part of the 1st century AD and may be associated with earliest of a sequence of three clay-floored structures. (1-2)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2003, Channel Tunel Rail Link Archaeological works at Springhead Roman Town (ARC SPH00): interim fieldwork report (Unpublished document). SKE31600.

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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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

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