Excavation in 2000-2002 revealed a group of features that probably belonged to the same complex which is likely to have originated in the 1st century and continued in use into the mid-Roman period. The focus of these features is suggested to have been a timber structure, Approximately 6 m upslope from the building were two shallow gullies, one which was L-shaped in plan and another which was more curvilinear, both unlikely to have been structural and more probably drainage gullies to divert rainwater run-off away from the rear of structure. A final gully was located to the south east this is likely to have marked a boundary of some sort. (1)

<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 (Monograph). SKE31245.