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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1599 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of early Roman timber building, Springhead, Northfleet |
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Summary
A timber building with an early roman date was discovered during excavations at Springhead in 2002-2002. It lay on gently sloping ground towards the base of the slope, at c 11.50 m aOD, immediately to the south of the southern viewing platform. Though parts of the building had eroded sufficient survived of the wall trenches and post-holes to indicate that it was aligned north-south and measured 9.0 m by 5.75 m. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6182 7260 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Roman - 100 AD? to 200 AD?)
Full description
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A timber building with an early roman date was discovered during excavations at Springhead in 2002-2002. It lay on gently sloping ground towards the base of the slope, at c 11.50 m aOD, immediately to the south of the southern viewing platform. Though parts of the building had eroded sufficient survived of the wall trenches and post-holes to indicate that it was aligned north-south and measured 9.0 m by 5.75 m. Very little diagnostic pottery came from the structural features but, overall, an early 2nd century date seems most probable for construction of this building. Two sub rectangular pits cut the inside edges of the wall trenches, and were notable for the large quantities of pottery they contained. This the latest of this pottery dated to the second half of the 2nd century. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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.
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XY | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106300 timber building, ] |
Related records
| TQ 67 SW 1600 | Parent of: Gullys associated with early Roman timber building, Springhead, Northfleet (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SW 1601 | Parent of: Possible fence lines associated with early Roman timber building, Springhead, Northfleet (Monument) |
