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Monument details

Summary

Excavation in 2000-2002 revealed a possible well or dene hole which may have been associated with a mid-Roman building dating to the 2nd to 3rd century. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• WELL (Roman - 150 AD? to 225 AD?)

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Excavation in 2000-2002 revealed a possible well or dene hole which may have been associated with a mid-Roman building dating to the 2nd to 3rd century. It was located 10m to the north of the building but a cobbled area may represent a path leading between the building and possible well. The upper metre of feature 2690 had been lined with flint nodules (presumably to revet the more weathered chalk nearer the surface) with no evidence for any lining below this, though excavation
was only possible to a maximum depth of less than 2 m. Pottery recovered from the homogeneous fill confirmed only that the upper fills at least were of mid-Roman date, with no later material present. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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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