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Monument details

Summary

Excavation in 2000-2002 carried out as part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link found an early medieval sunken-feature building close to the western Roman complex (Sports Ground site)

Location accurate to 2m based on available information

Monument Types

• GRUBENHAUS (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 480 AD to 720 AD?)
• POST HOLE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 480 AD? to 720 AD?)

Associated Finds

• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 420 AD? to 600 AD?)

Full description

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Excavation in 2000-2002 carried out as part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link found an early Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured building in the vicinity of the Western Roman Complex, Northfleet.

Saxon activity on the site of the Western Roman Complex was limited to a single sunken feature building (SFB)(1)

SFB 20186 was orientated NE-SW and was located to the north-west of the main area of Roman activity. IT was sub-rectangular and measured 3.90m length by 3.25m width and 0.27m in depth. The base was flattish with steeply sloping sides with the exception of the south-western end which sloped gently.(1)

Two post-holes were located at the south-western and north-western ends. (1)

There were three fills which produced a single sherd of residual Thameside/Upchurch grey ware. (1)

Location accurate to 2m based on available information.

<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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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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