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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1635 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible quayside platform within property 4 of the Roman road side settlement, Springhead |
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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. Along the edge of property 4 were several post-hole alignments possibly representing a succession of revetments associated with some form of quayside or platform. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6165 7270 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | SOUTHFLEET, DARTFORD, KENT |
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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. Along the edge of property 4 were several post-hole alignments possibly representing a succession of revetments associated with some form of quayside or platform. The alignments were up to 10 m in length and extended out a maximum of 3 m from the assumed water’s edge. What may have been the earliest group comprised an L-shaped arrangement of the three largest post-holes. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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XY | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106390 post hol, ] |
Related records
| TQ 67 SW 1410 | Part of: 'Property 4' at Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SW 1477 | Part of: Roman roadside settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
