TQ 683722. Gas main trenching revealed an extensive complex of ditches and/or rubbish pits associated with flint wall footings and Roman pottery. (1-2)

The cropmark traces of the Roman settlement sectioned by the pipeline described above were mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. The site appeared as two large conjoined rectilinear ditch-defined enclosures with traces of sub-divisions, but no building remans visible. The two enclosures were centred at TQ 6828 7221 and measured approximately 100m x 97m and 30m x 60m. The cropmarks suggest a number of phases of development are present. Ditches cut through the settlement enclosure and a number of probable field boundaries forming a field system (NMR Monument: 764396) can be seen extending to the south, cut by a curving trackway (NMR Monument: 765312), but it is not clear if these are contemporary with the Roman site. (3)

<1> Arch Cant 85 1970 185-187 (OS Card Reference). SKE35807.

<2> KAR 23 1971 69 (S Harker) (OS Card Reference). SKE45271.