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 11, which was located between the junction of Watling Street and its branch road, was a pit that had been cut into the roadside ditch containing a ritual deposit. The pit lay close to the western limit of excavation and 8m to the west of another ritual deposit of a human skull which was within the fills of the ditch. The pit has been assigned a early roman date on the basis of the pottery located within it. It contained a horse skull in the base and appears to represent example of a ‘placed’ deposit in this area, of which there are several other examples within the immediate vicinity. (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.