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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. Within the boundary of property 4 an early roman structure was represented by an L-shaped arrangement of wall foundations or footings and a number of post-holes. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• POST HOLE (Roman - 75 AD? to 150 AD?)
• WALL (Roman - 75 AD? to 150 AD?)
• YARD (Roman - 75 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 the boundary of property 4 an early roman structure was represented by an L-shaped arrangement of wall foundations or footings and a number of post-holes. The north and west sides comprised flint, chalk, and clay foundations which are likely to have supported a timber superstructure measuring approximately 10 m by 6 m. Along the south side were three substantial flint-packed post-holes spaced at intervals of approximately 3 m, and the structure may have been open-fronted on this side, facing onto a yard. The area to the south of structure was a yard represented by a series of cobbled surfaces. This structure belongs to the first phase of activity at this location which has been assigned a second half of the 1st century into the 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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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.

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