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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 67 SW 1628
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Isolated inhumation 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

BURIAL? (Roman - 150 AD? to 225 AD?)

Associated Finds

HUMAN REMAINS (Roman - 150 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. Within property 3 an inhumation burial of a subadult aged c13-16 was uncovered. Aligned approximately west–east, it lay directly on the surface
of the natural brickearth and no grave cut could be distinguished in the overlying, homogeneous deposit of dark soil. This burial is unusual in that, excluding neonates, it is the only example from this site which did not lie within a cemetery. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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XY	Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106378 burial, ]

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)