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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. By the mid roman period, property 3 contained what appears to have been an open fronted structure. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• WALL (Roman - 75 AD? to 200 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. By the mid roman period, property 3 contained what appears to have been an open fronted structure. This measured 9 m by a maximum of 6 m in the central, southern part of the property. The mortared flint and chalk rubble wall was approximately 0.4 m wide and generally no more than 0.3 m high including the foundation, and it seems certain that it provided the base for a timber superstructure. No hearths or other internal features were identified within structure 300639 and its function remains unclear, though it may have served for storage. Pottery indicates a mid–late 2nd century date, later than might have been anticipated, though this is likely to reflect the date of abandonment of a relatively long-lived feature. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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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