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 rectangular, clay-lined cistern measuring 2.54 m wide, 3.34 m long, and 0.40 m deep was identified. The pit was filled with a sequence of silty clay fills and charcoal-rich deposits. The fills produced building material, including tile and opus signinum, which presumably
derived from a demolished structure. The pit best fits within the early Roman period, possibly AD 70–120. Another clay-lined pit or tank was uncovered some 20 m south-west of the cistern. It was was rectangular in plan, 2.15 m long, 1.75 m wide and relatively shallow at 0.15 m deep A 0.12 m thick clay deposit on the edge of the feature suggests that the pit was clay-lined. A third tank was situated within the entrance of the later masonry east range and at the southern end of ditch 16723. It measured 3.0 m wide, 3.50 m long, and 1.0 m deep(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 Oxford Archaeology, 2003, Ebbsfleet Valley Detailed Mitigation Works, Northfleet, Kent: Interim Statement (Unpublished document).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.