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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 67 SW 1630
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Well 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

WELL (Roman - 75 AD? to 120 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 the boundary of property 3 a Roman well was uncovered. This lay on the north east edge of a yard associated with a timber structure, though the structure appears to be later in date. Though the well was not bottomed it appears to have had a square, timber-lined shaft of which only very degraded traces survived. This well appears to have gone out of use and been infilled by around AD 120 as there is nothing which could certainly be ascribed a mid-Roman date. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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XY	Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106380 well, ]

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)