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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1417 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | 'Property 10' including blacksmiths workshop at 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. This is Property 10 and contained a 1st/2nd century blacksmiths workshop. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6159 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 75 AD?)
- BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP (Roman - 75 AD? to 125 AD?)
- BOUNDARY (Roman - 75 AD? to 200 AD?)
- PIT (Roman - 75 AD? to 125 AD?)
- POST HOLE (Roman - 75 AD? to 125 AD?)
- STRUCTURE (Roman - 75 AD? to 125 AD?)
Associated Finds
- HOD HILL BROOCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC? to 409 AD?)
- COLCHESTER BROOCH (Roman - 50 AD? to 80 AD?)
- COIN (Roman - 75 AD? to 125 AD?)
- POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 75 AD? to 125 AD?)
- SLAG (Roman - 75 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 property boundaries west of the Ebbsfleet. This is Property 10. The property lay immediately south of the junction of Watling Street and the branch road. As elsewhere the earliest feature was the road-side ditch, cut in one phase and probably silted up by c. AD 75. Shortly after this the area was occupied by a smithy. To the south-east was a structure (c.9m x 5m), possibly open-sided while to the west were a number of pits, one of which contained a large pot and may have been a quenching pit for the smithy, a sequence of metalled surfaces and spreads of iron-working slag. Based on coin and pottery evidence the smithy spanned the late 1st century and early 2nd. (1)
A leaded brass Colchester brooch was found in layer 16039 and a leaded brass Hod Hill brooch nearby (2).
<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.
<2> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2011, Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. Volume 2: Late Iron Age to Roman Finds Reports (Monograph). SKE32435.
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: #4647 property, ] |
| <2> | Monograph: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2011. Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. Volume 2: Late Iron Age to Roman Finds Reports. |
Related records
| TQ 67 SW 1561 | Parent of: Blacksmiths workshop within Property 10 at Roman Settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SW 1655 | Parent of: Dene hole within property 10 in the Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SW 1652 | Parent of: Gullies associated with Watling Street within property 10 in the Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SW 1562 | Parent of: Roman fence-lines/ property boundaries at property 10 in the Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SW 1654 | Parent of: Water storage pit within property 10 in the Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SW 1653 | Parent of: Well within property 10 in the Roman settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SW 1477 | Part of: Roman roadside settlement, Springhead (Monument) |
