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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 67 SW 297
Type of record:Monument
Name:Early Roman Occupation Site, Ebbsfleet Valley

Summary

Enclosures and features which predate the villa complex on this site. The site consists of possible timber structures, wood and clay lined cisterns and an enclosure ditch.

Location accurate to 2m based on available information.


Grid Reference:TQ 6164 7407
Map Sheet:TQ67SW
Parish:SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • CISTERN (Roman - 43 AD? to 99 AD?)
  • DITCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 99 AD?)
  • ENCLOSURE (Roman - 43 AD? to 99 AD?)
  • SITE (Roman - 43 AD? to 99 AD?)

Associated Finds

  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD? to 99 AD?)
  • MILLSTONE (Roman - 43 AD? to 99 AD?)
Protected Status:Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Site of a Roman villa revealed by excavations. A bath building with moasics was also excavated. Some medieval features and possible prehistoric pits also located within this area.

Full description

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Early Roman site in use prior to the construction of Northfleet Villa (TQ 67 SW 38 & 1001). The site consists of possible timber structures suggested by post holes, an enclosure ditch which had steep sides and a stone lined "ankle-breaker" in the base, and a number of cisterns either wood or clay lined. An articulated horse skeleton and fragments of a mill stone were found in two of the wood line cisterns. (1)

Location accurate to 2m based on available information.


<1> Oxford Archaeology, 2003, Ebbsfleet Valley Detailed Mitigation Works, Northfleet, Kent: Interim Statement (Unpublished document). SKE12256.

<2> 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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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>Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2003. Ebbsfleet Valley Detailed Mitigation Works, Northfleet, Kent: Interim Statement.
<2>Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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.

Related records

TQ 67 SW 1535Parent of: Early Roman Occupation Site, Ebbsfleet Valley - Cisterns (Monument)
TQ 67 SW 1536Parent of: Early Roman Occupation Site, Ebbsfleet Valley - Ditch (Monument)
TQ 67 SW 1534Parent of: Early Roman Occupation Site, Ebbsfleet Valley -Pits (Monument)
TQ 67 SW 38Part of: Northfleet Roman Villa Site, Ebbsfleet Valley (Monument)