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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1652 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Gullies associated with Watling Street within property 10 in the Roman 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. Two short lengths of shallow gully were identified within property 10, approximately 3m from the edge of Watling Street. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6160 7269 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | SOUTHFLEET, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DITCH (Roman - 50 AD? to 125 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. Two short lengths of shallow gully were identified within property 10, approximately 3m from the edge of Watling Street. The interpretation of these features is not clear but they may have been marking out ditches associated with the construction of the road, and therefore have an early date. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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XY | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106425 gully, ] |
Related records
| TQ 67 SW 1417 | Part of: 'Property 10' including blacksmiths workshop at Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
