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Monument details

Summary

Excavations in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in 2002-3 identified a number of property boundaries west of the Ebbsfleet. A series of pits were discovered within property 8, these have been interpreted as rubbish pits. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• PIT (Roman - 75 AD? to 225 AD?)

Associated Finds

• SHERD (Roman - 75 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 property boundaries west of the Ebbsfleet. A series of pits were discovered within property 8, these have been interpreted as rubbish pits. All of these lay within the eastern half of the property (suggesting that the western half may have had some kind of structure). The small cluster of pits to the north may have defined a boundary on the north-west side of the property, but there is no other evidence for this. All of these pits appear to have been used for rubbish disposal. Further to the north-west were two, shallow irregularly shaped pits containing very few finds and one undated pit. Pottery from the pits indicates that most were filled in the later 1st and 2nd centuries, but there was limited evidence from two of the larger pits that these remained open into the beginning of the 3rd 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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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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