Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 (1)

Description from record TR 06 SW 126:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 (1)

Description from record TR 25 SW 143:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Dover section. For further details see TR 24 NW 83 (1)

Description from record TQ 66 NE 51:
Roman road: Watling Street - Rochester to London. For further details see TQ57SE120 (1)

Description from record TR 15 NW 504:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester section. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 (1)

Description from record TR 15 SE 169:
Roman road: Watling Street - Dover to Canterbury section. For further details see TR 24 NW 83 (1)

Description from record TQ 57 SW 180:
Roman road: Watling Stret - Rochester to London section. For further details see TQ 57 SE 120 (1). Site photograph (2).

Description from record TQ 86 NE 54:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester section. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 (1)

Description from record TQ 86 SE 48:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester section. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 (1)

Description from record TR 24 SE 54:
Roman road: Watling Street - Dover to Canterbury section. For further details see TR 24 NW 83 (1)

Description from record TQ 67 SE 100:
Roman road: Watling Street - Rochester to London section. For further details see TQ 57 SE 120 (1)

Description from record TQ 57 SE 120:
Roman road: Watling street. (1)

Evaluation trenches were laid out across the postulated line of the Roman Watling Street. No evidence of metalling or associated features were found, although the metalling could have been removed through ploughing. This suggests that the postulated line of the road does not cross the site as shown on Ordanace Survey Maps. Excavations at Springhead Nursery, 500m to the east, have exposed what is believed to be part of Watling Street. The projected line of this road to the west places the Roman road beneath the A2, and at least 300m north of the Park Corner evaluation trenches. (2)

Evaluation work along side the southern edge of the A2 near Springhead (centred on TQ 617725) revealed evidence of cobbled surfaces. It is possible that these represent part of Watling Street. (2)

During evaluation works at Springhead Nursery approximately 90 m of the road was exposed. Although the gravel metallings had been truncated in one area, its course was clearly defined by roadside ditches. These showed that the raod approched Springhead for the west, beneath the existing A2, before turning south-eastwards to avoid the lowest part of the Ebbsfleet valley. It was a maximum of 8m wide with a series of metallings up to 0.5 m thick. A second road, 5 m wide, joined Watling Street to the north-west. (3)

In Dartford, along Spital Street, part of an earlier road, preceeding the established Watling Street was found (TQ 57 SW 247) (4).

Description from record TR 05 NW 25:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester. For further details see (1)

Description from record TR 25 SW 298:
Roman Road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Dover section

During work to widen the A2 carriageway in 1971 near Barham the road was found, it is metalled with flint cobbles. The metalled road measures 6m, the northern ditch is 1m away and measures 0.50m across. The southern ditch is 4m away and measures 1.75m. There were also a few scraps of Romano-British pottery, dateable to the first and second centuries.(2)

Description from record TQ 86 NW 59:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester portion. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 (1)

Description from record TQ 76 NW 146:
Roman road: Watling Street - Rochester to London section. For further details see TQ 57 SE 120 (1)

Description from record TR 34 SW 259:
Roman road: Watling Street - Dover to Canterbury section For further details see TR 24 NW 83 (1)

Description from record TR 24 NW 83:
Roman road: Watling Street Dover to Canterbury section. (1)

Description from record TQ 76 NW 145:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester section. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 (1)

Description from record TQ 96 SE 44:
Roman road: Watling street. (1)

Description from record TQ 96 SW 74:
Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 (1)

Where the road passes through Syndale Park, an earthwork is visible to the south of the modern road alignment. It is a shallow rise flanked by very shallow depressions on the north and south sides, running for c.470m. (5) This was also evident in geophysical surveys carried out in the park. Subsequent excavations apparently found the road and identified two phases of construction, the first from AD 50 and the second from the 4th century. (6)

A brass Hod Hill brooch was found by the road running through the Springhead settlement section. (7)

Description from record TQ 67 SW 111:
Parch Marks of Roman Building (TQ 67 SW 347) and small stretch of Roman Road (RR1c). Road under excavation in 1975 photo. Within area of vagniacae Roman Settlement. (1 - 2) Cropmark of Roman building sited to TQ 6171 7250 from good quality air photographs (site no. KE 108.2.1) (3)

Excavation in advance of proposed development recorded a 10m length of Roman Watling Street as well as part of the eastern flanking ditch. (8)

Cobham Resource Cons. Keith Funnell Ass., Gravesham BC & Union Railways Ltd, 1996, Ashenbank Wood and Cobham Park Study Stage 3 Report (Unpublished document). SKE6680.

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.

<1> AP (NMR TQ 6172/4; 07.07.75) (OS Card Reference). SKE33608.

<1> NAR Linear Record (OS Card Reference). SKE47505.

<1> Hogarth, A. C., 1971, Arch Cant 86 240 1971, Arch cant 86 240 1971 (Article in serial). SKE16678.

<2> AP (CUC AAW 60; 13.06.60) (OS Card Reference). SKE33333.

<2> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10733.

<2> Macpherson-grant, N., 1980, Archaeological work along the A2, Arch Cant 96 134 1980 (Article in serial). SKE16610.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2003, Channel Tunnel Rail Link Archaeological Works at Springhead, Kent: Park Corner Road, Pepperhill Café, Pepperhill Tunnel, South of the A2, West of Springhead Nursery (Unpublished document). SKE12265.

<3> The Classification of cropmarks in Kent: A Report for MPP. RCHM APU (July 1989), list 40. (OS Card Reference). SKE50293.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2003, Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Archaeological Works at Springhead Nursery (ARC SHN02) Interim Fieldwork Report (Unpublished document). SKE12274.

<4> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1991, Excavations at Spital Street, Dartford; Level IV Report (Unpublished document). SKE12284.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2008, Syndale Park Motel, Faversham, Kent: Historic Landscape Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE18236.

<6> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2008, Syndale Park Motel, London Road, Ospringe, near Faversham, Kent: Archaeological Evaluation Post Excavation Assessment DRAFT, page 6-7 (Unpublished document). SKE18240.

<7> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2011, Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. Volume 2: Late Iron Age to Roman Finds Reports (Monograph). SKE32435.

<8> Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2001, Britannia, vol 32, p 382 (Article in serial). SKE54840.