During excavation work on the line of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, close to Springhead, two overlapping ring-ditches representing barrows were found at the head of the Ebbsfleet Valley.

The earlier ring-ditch (Group 300001) had a diameter of c 18m, although only just less than half of
the ditch survived, the north-western part having been eroded away by the Roman spring line. The possible remains of a central, urned cremation burial survived although this had been substantially
truncated by a later Roman road which had been cut through the area down to the water’s edge. The feature comprised a shallow ovoid pit (0.45 x 0.30m and 0.10m deep) cut into sandy gravel. A large pot had been placed in the centre of the pit although it was poorly preserved and only fragments of
the base survived. The pot was identified as a Deverel- Rimbury Bucket Urn, marked by a single cereal grain impression.

Location accurate to 2m based on available information

Wenban-Smith FF, et al.,, 2012, Prehistoric Ebbsfleet: Excavations and Research in Advance of High Speed 1 and STDR 4. (Monograph). SKE32262.

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2003, Channel Tunnel Rail Link Archaeological works at Springhead Roman Town (ARC SPH00): interim fieldwork report (Unpublished document). SKE31600.