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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 67 SW 1654
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Water storage pit within property 10 in the Roman settlement, Springhead

Summary

Grid Reference:	TQ 6159 7269
Map Sheet:	TQ67SW
Parish:	SOUTHFLEET, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

PIT (Roman - 75 AD? to 225 AD?)

Associated Finds

VESSEL (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 10 on the western side of Watling Street, the bottom part of a large storage pit was uncovered within a pit. This has been interpreted as a water storage vessel. The pot which has a probable mid Roman date had been set upwright in the base of the pit. It was located 6m to the north of a well with which it may have been associated. It is likely that the storage vessel and pit may have been used in the quenching of iron objects during smithing. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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XY	Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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: #106429 pit, ]

Related records

TQ 67 SW 1417

Part of: 'Property 10' including blacksmiths workshop at Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument)