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, gully with a mid-Roman date was uncovered. This was located in the north eastern corner of the property and was one of a small cluster of mid Roman features in a property which appears to have a largely early Roman date, representing a late focus of activity within the property after the remainder had been abandoned. It might be noted that this late focus was adjacent to the branch road and not Watling Street. (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.