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Monument details

Summary

Excavations in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in 2002-3 identified a number of Romano-British property boundaries west of the Ebbsfleet. A number of ditches and a path defined the boundaries for Property 3. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• DITCH (Roman - 50 AD? to 100 AD?)
• PATH (Roman - 75 AD? to 225 AD?)

Full description

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Excavations in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in 2002-3 identified a number of Romano-British property boundaries west of the Ebbsfleet. A number of ditches and a path defined the boundaries for Property 3. The roadside ditch associated with Watling Street ran through this property. Approximately 7 m to the east of the roadside ditch was another early ditch, this was relatively small, with a width of 1 m and a depth of 0.35 m. The northern boundary to property 3 was clearly defined, marked initially by a shallow ditch and subsequently by a path which provided access from Watling Street to the waterfront. This path was a relatively long lived feature which remained in use into the early 3rd century at least. The southern property boundary was also clearly defined in its earliest phases, represented by a sequence of shallow, recut ditches. Pottery from these ditches indicates that all had been infilled by the end of the 1st century AD. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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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