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Monument details

Summary

Excavation in 2000-2002 revealed a group of features that probably belonged to the same complex which is likely to have originated in the 1st century and continued in use into the mid-Roman period. One of these features included a possible unmetalled path or trackway. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• TRACKWAY (Roman - 50 AD? to 150 AD?)

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Excavation in 2000-2002 revealed a group of features that probably belonged to the same complex which is likely to have originated in the 1st century and continued in use into the mid-Roman period. One of these features included a possible unmetalled path or trackway. This was represented by a shallow, wide, irregular gully which appeared to respect the locattion of structure a timber structure with which it is likely associated. It possibly provided access to the corn dryer from the timber building. (1)

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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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