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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 67 SW 300
Type of record:Monument
Name:Medieval Boundary Ditch, Ebbsfleet Valley

Summary

A single ditch which appears to be a medieval boundary ditch located in the Ebbsfleet Valley.

Location accutate to 2m based on available information.


Grid Reference:TQ 6169 7263
Map Sheet:TQ67SW
Parish:SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

Associated Finds

  • SHERD (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 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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A single ditch which appears to be a medieval boundary ditch located in the ebbsfleet valley (1)

The ditch ran SW–NE and was c 6.50 m wide and 1.25 m deep with an open U-shaped profile, with no evidence for re-cutting. It was filled with a homogeneous mid-orange–grey sandy clay loam with occasional chalk and gravel lenses. Apart from a few sherds of residual Roman pottery there were five medieval sherds of probable 13th century date, all derived from a single vessel. There were no postmedieval or modern finds and this suggests that the ditch was a medieval rather than later feature. (2)

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 Oxford Archaeology, 2003, Ebbsfleet Valley Detailed Mitigation Works, Northfleet, Kent: Interim Statement (Unpublished document).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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2003.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Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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