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 4 was a well, which may have been used in conjunction with a later Roman tank which was situated nearby. The well had a subcircular well-pit and a central shaft lined with chalk blocks. Only the upper 1.5 m of the shaft was excavated and most of the chalk blocks had been robbed from this area, but pottery recovered from the latest fills indicates that it had been completely infilled by around the beginning of the 3rd century. It is considered likely that it was dug early in the 2nd century and remained in use for up to a century or so. (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.