Excavations in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in 2002-3 identified a number of Romano-British property boundaries west of the Ebbsfleet. Within property two a series of ditches were uncovered which may represent boundaries within the property. The first was located towards the south eastern end of property 2, it consisted of a shallow, rather irregular ditch which may have marked the boundary between properties 1 and 2, with pottery indicating a mid–late 1st century date for this feature. Approximately 10 m to the north-east and parallel with the projected line of the roadside ditch was a second ditch. This was approximately 1.5 m wide, 1.1 m deep and was traced for a distance of at least 12 m. This ditch has been assigned a mid-1st century date and may have been an early boundary feature or a marking-out ditch for Watling Street. A third shallow ditch ran parallel to and 3 m north-east of the second ditch, though only a relatively short length was seen. This ditch has been assigned an early Roman date, but whether it was contemporary with 300347 is unclear and its function is unknown. (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.