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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 67 SW 1627
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Possible beam slots within property 3 of the Roman road side settlement, Springhead

Summary

Grid Reference:	TQ 6165 7267
Map Sheet:	TQ67SW
Parish:	SOUTHFLEET, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

BEAM SLOT? (Roman - 50 AD? to 150 AD?)
GULLY? (Roman - 50 AD? to 150 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. Within property 3 a series of linear features representing possible gullies or beam slots were identified. These were broadly parallel, of variable width, and from 1.5 to 6 m in length. It is possible that the southern group, in particular, were beam slots associated with a structure adjacent to the waterfront. Pottery from the various fills includes material ranging in date from the mid 1st to the early 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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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XY	Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106372 beam slot, ]

Related records

TQ 67 SW 1409	Part of: 'Property 3' at Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument)
TQ 67 SW 1477	Part of: Roman roadside settlement, Springhead (Monument)