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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 67 SW 1641
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Possible sunken featured building within property 5 of the Roman road side settlement, Springhead

Summary

Grid Reference:	TQ 6164 7271
Map Sheet:	TQ67SW
Parish:	SOUTHFLEET, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

PIT (Roman - 150 AD? to 225 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 a large sub rectangular pit was uncovered which has been interpreted as a possible sunken featured building. It was located within 5 m of the edge of the Ebbsfleet. It was approximately 9 m long, 6 m wide, and 0.9 m deep, with steeply sloping or near-vertical sides and a slightly undulating bottom. Pottery indicates a mid-Roman date. The function of the building is uncertain but it may have served for storage of some sort. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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XY	Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106398 SFB, ]

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)