Excavations in advance of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in 2002-3 identified a number of property boundaries west of the Ebbsfleet. Within property 7 which was aligned along the branch road from Wating Street, was a series of substantial post holes which represented the line of a fence between the road and the property.

This fence line line extended to the south-east beyond the corner of the building. Here, as in other properties, the evidence also indicates that the fencelines were constructed within individual properties. For example, the post-holes in property 7 were larger and of a more consistent size and spacing than the 12 post-holes alongside the road in property 8 to the north-west. The post-holes in property 7 were spaced at roughly 2 m intervals, were c 1 m diameter with an average depth of 0.70 m and had post-sockets c 0.20 m diameter. At the south-eastern end of this group were two later,
particularly substantial post-holes which, on the basis of the ceramic evidence, are dated to the late Roman period. One of these was 1.60 m diameter, 1.25 m deep with a post-socket 0.70 m diameter, and the other was approximately 2 m diameter, 1.4 m deep and with a post-socket 0.90 m diameter. Perhaps these two post-holes defined a 2 m wide entrance to a yard adjacent to the building uncovered in this property, though it is uncertain whether this was still standing at this time. (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.