During excavation work on the line of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, close to Springhead, a concentration unstratified struck flints were recovered around the head of the Ebbsfleet. Some of the flints are characteristic of late upper palaeolithic long blades. It is believed that they represent a flint working site. The precise location is not known but must have been nearby . Other flints are probably of a mesolithic date (TQ 67 SW 308) although disturbance of the area by later bronze age activity (TQ 67 SW 309) make this conclusion uncertain (1). Full report due out in 2017, still not out Feb 2020 (2).

Location approximate based on available information

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2003, Channel Tunnel Rail Link Archaeological works at Springhead Roman Town (ARC SPH00): interim fieldwork report (Unpublished document). SKE31600.

<2> Wenban-Smith FF, et al.,, 2012, Prehistoric Ebbsfleet: Excavations and Research in Advance of High Speed 1 and STDR 4. (Monograph). SKE32262.