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)

A sequence of pits was identified. The earlest measured up to 3.20 m wide at the top and at least 1.30 m deep. This pit was initially
vertical sided, but then flattened out to create a horizontal ledge or step before resuming its steep angle. It was filled with a
succession of sandy silt fills, probably colluvial in origin. The fills were mostly sterile but the lower fill contained four sherds of grog-tempered ware and Thameside grey ware broadly dating to the later 1st century AD. After the pit had filled, it was cut by a second pit which was 2.60 m wide and 0.30 m deep. The fill was a similar sandy silt or colluvial deposits, which yielded another four sherds of pottery. This included shelly ware, a Verulamium-region ware disc-mouthed flagon, and North Kent white-slipped oxidised ware that
suggested an AD 70–160 date range for filling. A third pit was then cut which was c 2.50 m wide and 1.05 m deep and contained at least two fills. No dating evidence beyond broadly dated Roman tile was recovered from this fill (2).

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 Oxford Archaeology, 2003, Ebbsfleet Valley Detailed Mitigation Works, Northfleet, Kent: Interim Statement (Unpublished document).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 (Monograph). SKE31245.