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Monument details

Summary

Excavation in 2000-2002 carried out as part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link found an early Anglo-Saxon pit that contained a Roman brooch, a shale spindle-whorl and a coppy alloy bucket handle. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• PIT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 480 AD? to 720 AD?)

Associated Finds

• POLDEN HILL BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 100 AD)
• HANDLE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 480 AD? to 720 AD?)
• SPINDLE WHORL (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 480 AD? to 720 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 pit (pit 2874) that contained a Roman Polden Hill brooch, a shale spindle-whorl, a bucket handle, a copper alloy sheet fragment, an unidentified iron object and 'one Roman and two Saxon pottery sherds'. It was situated approximately 125m to the north of another Anglo-Saxon pit. It was 1.3m by 1m in plan and 0.3m deep and cut Roman deposits which filled the east side of the Ebbsfleet channel. (1-4)

<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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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> Wessex Archaeology, 2003, Channel Tunel Rail Link Archaeological works at Springhead Roman Town (ARC SPH00): interim fieldwork report (Unpublished document). SKE31600.

<3> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2011, Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. Volume 4: Saxon and Later Finds and Environmental Reports (Monograph). SKE32437.

<4> 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.

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