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Monument details

Summary

Excavations in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in 2002-3 uncovered Five inhumation graves representing part of a larger cemetery towards the corner of the site to the rear of property 12. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• BURIAL (Roman - 150 AD? to 350 AD?)

Associated Finds

• HOB NAIL (Roman - 150 AD? to 350 AD?)
• NAIL (Roman - 150 AD? to 350 AD?)

Full description

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Excavations in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in 2002-3 uncovered Five inhumation graves representing part of a larger cemetery towards the corner of the site to the rear of property 12. Three graves were aligned north-west to south-east and may have been part of a line of burials, with two others aligned approximately north-east to south-west. The four graves with surviving bone all contained adults aged over c 30 years. The finds and stratigraphy indicate a mid- or, more probably, late Roman date for the burials which are likely to have belonged to what may have been a small, dispersed, roadside cemetery some 25 m back from the street frontage. This cemetery lay on the edge of the settlement and continued for an unknown distance to the west, one of several cemeteries that are known around the periphery of Springhead and which were focussed on routes into and out of the settlement. (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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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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