During a watching brief on groundworks for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link close to Fawkham Junction, six boundary ditches were found aligned north- south. All had "V" shaped profiles and contained Roman pottery sherds. One of the ditches, all are believed to have been field boundaries, had been re-cut at least four times. Two of the ditches had cut four pits, from a total of five found, but from what period these pits date, or their relationship to the ditches is not yet clear. One of the pits contained the remains of a Roman pot containing cremated bone. This may have been disturbed in the Roman period during the period of ditch construction and redeposited in a pit. Also a shallow feature lined with burnt clay had cut one of the ditches. No datable evidence was found in association with the feature thought to have been an oven.(1 & 2)

Description from record TQ 56 NE 101:
A series of parallel ditches aligned north-south cut by four later pits. The pottery and animal bone assemblages from their fills indicate that the ditches probably enclosed part of a settlement, rather than fileds. The settlement appears to have expanded over time with the pits cutting the earlier ditch features. (1)

Additional bibliography. (2-3)

Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, The Prehistoric Landscape at Whitehill Road Barrow, Longfield and New Barn, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE17841.

<1> Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2000, Channel Tunnel Rail Link Contracts 330 & 350 Watching Brief ARC 330 98 Interim Report (Volume 1 of 2) (Unpublished document). SKE12773.

<1> Museum of London Archaeology Service, August 2001, Area 330 (Zone 1) Whitehill Barrow (ARC WHR 99) Archaeological Post Excavation report (Unpublished document). SWX12888.

<2> Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2000, Channel Tunnel Rail Link Contracts 330 & 350 Watching Brief ARC 330 98 Interim Report (Volume 2 of 2)
Channel Tunnel Rail Link Contracts 330 & 350 Watching Brief ARC 330 98 Interim Report (Volume 2of 2) (Unpublished document). SKE12774.

<2> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, Radiocarbon dates from Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16490.

<3> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2005, The Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery from Excavations Along Section 1 of the CTRL (Unpublished document). SKE16488.