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Monument details

Summary

Excavation in 2000-2002 carried out as part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link found several inhumation burials in the ditch that enclosed the mid Roman sanctuary complex. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• GRAVE (Roman - 150 AD? to 225 AD?)

Associated Finds

• ANKLET (Roman - 100 AD? to 200 AD?)
• JUG (Roman - 100 AD? to 200 AD?)
• HUMAN REMAINS (Roman - 150 AD? to 225 AD?)

Full description

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Excavation in 2000-2002 carried out as part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link found several inhumation burials in the ditch that enclosed the mid Roman sanctuary complex. A sequence of three individuals,
of which two were articulated both with their head towards the south-east end, and the third which was heavily disturbed were located at the northern end of the ditch, cut into its inner edge. One in this group was accompanied by a base of a jar assigned a mid-Roman date lying next to the skull, both truncated by later ploughing and erosion, whilst around the right ankle was a ring of twisted iron wire. Further to the south and within a large shallow sub oval pit, contained three neonate burials along with the redeposited remains of at least one other individual. Pottery from the fills indicates a late 2nd or early 3rd century date for both the filling of the pit and the burials. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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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