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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 67 SW 1639
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Pathway within property 5 of the Roman road side settlement, Springhead

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 property 5, extending back approximately 6 m from the street frontage in approximately the middle of the property was a gravel pathway. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Grid Reference:	TQ 6162 7270
Map Sheet:	TQ67SW
Parish:	SOUTHFLEET, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

PATH (Roman - 50 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 property 5, extending back approximately 6 m from the street frontage in approximately the middle of the property was a gravel pathway. This pathway was up to 3m wide and had two surviving layers of metalling. No relationship between this and Watling Street could be established, but the pathway appears to be an early 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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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.

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XY	Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106396 path, ]

Related records

TQ 67 SW 1412	Part of: 'Property 5' at Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument)
TQ 67 SW 1477	Part of: Roman roadside settlement, Springhead (Monument)