Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A group of seven pits with an early roman date were uncovered during excavations at Springhead in 2000-2002. The pits lay close together and were of a variety of shapes and sizes, with no specific functions apparent. One of the pits however, was shallow and markedly sub-rectangular, measuring approximately 4.25 by 3.0 m and 0.15 m deep with a flat base, and this may have been a sunkenfeatured structure of some kind, though there were no associated post- or stake-holes. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• BUILDING (Roman - 50 AD? to 150 AD?)
• PIT (Roman - 50 AD? to 150 AD?)

Full description

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A group of seven pits with an early roman date were uncovered during excavations at Springhead in 2000-2002. The pits lay close together and were of a variety of shapes and sizes, with no specific functions apparent. One of the pits however, was shallow and markedly sub-rectangular, measuring approximately 4.25 by 3.0 m and 0.15 m deep with a flat base, and this may have been a sunkenfeatured structure of some kind, though there were no associated post- or stake-holes. One pit was possibly a dene hole, may also have been part of this group though it contained mid-Roman pottery in the excavated upper fill. Two other pits contained mid-Roman pottery, and another was cut by a mid-Roman grave. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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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