(1) The Roman building was part excavated following geophysical survey. Survival of the Roman buiding was good with stone walls, areas of sandy gravel floors all covered by a layer of collapsed Kentish Ragstone. Cutting through the collapsed strata were cill beam slots, sitting on a different alignment likely for a timber building. The pottery identified from this context dates to the 5th-6th century AD.

The revealed Roman building measures 32m in length by 10.5m in width, built by mortared kentish ragstone - the collapsed walls indicates they may have had a height of 2.5m for the outer walls.

The site of the building was set on bedrock geology of Gault Formation-Cretaceous Mudstone. The geology revealed during the 2019 excavations were loamy and clayey floodplain soils.

Area 1:
In test pit 1: Robbed out Kentish Ragstone walling.
Test Pit 2: Demo deposits over Roman floors still in situ.
Test Pit 3: Roman pot.

South wall of Roman building, wall was built of flint nodules which were set in an off-white mortar and had small well-rounded gravel inclusions. This wall measured around 16m in width and continued to the South East, so the full extent was not exposed.

In the central area of Area 1, was an oven (C2). There was also a sandy floor area 64A set on a bae of yellow bronw clay about 10cm thick.

Area 2:
At the northern end of the trench, the internal and external N-S walls were revealed [78] as well as the internal sand floor [64A].
Running N-S but a different angle was a cill beam slot which measured 23m x0.40m inside the Roman building, this building dates to the Early Saxon period based on the pottery excavated.

A Roman external room overlaid the route of the leat, investigations into the leat revelaed Roman waterway measuring around 3.50m wide and 2m deep. The waterway was not fully excavated.

Stone built Roman building which was likely used as an industrial building was disused but later built as the foundation for an Anglo-Saxon building in the late 5th century, potentially to utilitse the surviving watercourse.

<1> Kent Archaeological Field School, 2024, Excavation of a Roman Industrial Building to the east of Harville Road, Wye, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE55935.