Monument record TQ 86 SW 132 - Watling Street Roman Road

Summary

Roman road: Watling Street. The Roman road Watling Street ran from Canterbury to Rochester, passing through the areas listed above. More information about the monument can be found on TQ 96 SE 44 Summary from record TR 25 SW 143: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TQ 66 NE 51: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TR 15 NW 504: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TR 15 SE 169: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TQ 57 SW 180: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TQ 86 NE 54: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TQ 86 SE 48: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TR 24 SE 54: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TQ 67 SE 100: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TQ 57 SE 120: Excavations at Springhead Nursery, exposed c.90m of what is believed to be part of Watling Street. It was up to 8m wide and had a gravel metalled surface defined by roadside ditches. The projected line of this road placed the Roman road beneath the A2, before it turned south-eastwards to avoid the lowest part of the Ebbsfleet valley. There was also a second road, 5 m wide, joined Watling Street to the north-west. In Dartford, along Spital Street, part of an earlier road, preceeding the established Watling Street was previously found (see TQ 57 SW 247). Summary from record TR 05 NW 25: This is the line of the Roman road Watling Street between Brenley Corner and Dunkirk. Summary from record TR 25 SW 298: Roman Road: Watling Street, Canterbury to Dover section Summary from record TQ 86 NW 59: Roman road: Watling Street - Canterbury to Rochester portion. For further details see TQ 96 SE 44 Summary from record TQ 76 NW 146: The Rochester to London section of the Watling Street, the Roman Road. Excavations at Springhead Nursery in 2003, exposed c.90m of what is believed to be part of Watling Street. It was up to 8m wide and had a gravel metalled surface defined by roadside ditches. The projected line of this road placed the Roman road beneath the A2, before it turned south-eastwards to avoid the lowest part of the Ebbsfleet valley. There was also a second road, 5 m wide, joined Watling Street to the north-west. In Dartford, along Spital Street, part of an earlier road, preceeding the established Watling Street was previously found (see TQ 57 SW 247). Summary from record TR 34 SW 259: Roman road: Watling Street RR1A Summary from record TR 24 NW 83: Roman road: Watling Street Summary from record TQ 76 NW 145: Watling Street Roman Road. Excavations at Springhead Nursery in 2003, exposed c.90m of what is believed to be part of Watling Street. It was up to 8m wide and had a gravel metalled surface defined by roadside ditches. The projected line of this road placed the Roman road beneath the A2, before it turned south-eastwards to avoid the lowest part of the Ebbsfleet valley. There was also a second road, 5 m wide, joined Watling Street to the north-west. In Dartford, along Spital Street, part of an earlier road, preceeding the established Watling Street was previously found (see TQ 57 SW 247). Summary from record TQ 96 SE 44: Watling Street is a Roman road passing though seven parishes between Faversham, Kent and Sittingbourne, Kent. Summary from record TQ 96 SW 74: Watling Street, the London to Dover Roamn raod, runs through Swale district. See TQ 96 SE 44 for futher details. Summary from record TQ 67 SW 111: The course of a Roman road has been tracked through cropmarks and by excavation. It runs approximately east-west past the temples and bakery at Springhead

Location

Grid reference Centred TQ 8022 6123 (100447m by 37130m) Centred on
Map sheet TQ86SW
Civil Parish GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT
Civil Parish ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT
Civil Parish SITTINGBOURNE, SWALE, KENT
County KENT
District CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish BARHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish BEKESBOURNE-WITH-PATRIXBOURNE, CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish BISHOPSBOURNE, CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish BRIDGE, CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish HARBLEDOWN AND ROUGH COMMON, CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish KINGSTON, CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish WOMENSWOLD, CANTERBURY, KENT
District DARTFORD, KENT
Civil Parish DARENTH, DARTFORD, KENT
Civil Parish DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT
Civil Parish SOUTHFLEET, DARTFORD, KENT
Civil Parish STONE, DARTFORD, KENT
Civil Parish SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish DENTON WITH WOOTTON, DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish DOVER, DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish LYDDEN, DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish SHEPHERDSWELL WITH COLDRED, DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish TEMPLE EWELL, DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT
District GRAVESHAM, KENT
Civil Parish COBHAM, GRAVESHAM, KENT
Civil Parish HIGHAM, GRAVESHAM, KENT
Civil Parish SHORNE, GRAVESHAM, KENT
District SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish BAPCHILD, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish BOBBING, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish BORDEN, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish BOUGHTON UNDER BLEAN, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish DUNKIRK, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish GRAVENEY WITH GOODNESTONE, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish HARTLIP, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish LYNSTED WITH KINGSDOWN, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish NEWINGTON, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish NORTON, BUCKLAND AND STONE, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish OSPRINGE, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish TEYNHAM, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish TONGE, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish UPCHURCH, SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish BEAN, DARTFORD, KENT
Unitary Authority MEDWAY

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Full Description

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.

Sources/Archives (16)

  • --- Monograph: 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.
  • --- Unpublished document: Cobham Resource Cons. Keith Funnell Ass., Gravesham BC & Union Railways Ltd. 1996. Ashenbank Wood and Cobham Park Study Stage 3 Report.
  • <1> Article in serial: Hogarth, A. C.. 1971. Arch Cant 86 240 1971. vol LXXXVI 1971 p240-241. Arch cant 86 240 1971.
  • <1> OS Card Reference: AP (NMR TQ 6172/4; 07.07.75).
  • <1> OS Card Reference: NAR Linear Record.
  • <2> Unpublished document: 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.
  • <2> Article in serial: Macpherson-grant, N.. 1980. Archaeological work along the A2. Arch Cant vol 96 134. Arch Cant 96 134 1980.
  • <2> OS Card Reference: AP (CUC AAW 60; 13.06.60).
  • <2> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TQ5474/4. print.
  • <3> Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2003. Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Archaeological Works at Springhead Nursery (ARC SHN02) Interim Fieldwork Report.
  • <3> OS Card Reference: The Classification of cropmarks in Kent: A Report for MPP. RCHM APU (July 1989), list 40..
  • <4> Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1991. Excavations at Spital Street, Dartford; Level IV Report.
  • <5> Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2008. Syndale Park Motel, Faversham, Kent: Historic Landscape Assessment.
  • <6> Unpublished document: 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.
  • <7> Monograph: 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.
  • <8> Article in serial: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. 2001. Britannia, vol 32, p 382. vol 32, p 382.

Finds (1)

Protected Status/Designation

Related Monuments/Buildings (4)

Related Events/Activities (12)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Archaeological Desk Based Assessment: Lydden Hill Race Circuit (Ref: F/TH/15/0266) (EKE14958)
  • Intrusive Event: Archaeological work along the A2 (EKE10856)
  • Event Boundary: CTRL Excavation Springhead Nursery, Southfleet: Excavation phase (Ref: ARC SHN02) (EKE8581)
  • Intrusive Event: CTRL Excavation Springhead Nursery, Southfleet: Excavation phase (Ref: ARC SHN02) (EKE18819)
  • Event Boundary: CTRL Excavation Springhead Nursery, Southfleet: watching brief (Ref: ARC SHN02) (EKE18820)
  • Intrusive Event: CTRL Excavation Springhead Nursery, Southfleet: watching brief (Ref: ARC SHN02) (EKE18821)
  • Intrusive Event: Evaluation South of the A2, Near Springhead (Ref: ARC SAT02) (EKE8572)
  • Intrusive Event: Excavation at Syndale Park (EKE12709)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: Geophysical survey, Syndale Park (EKE12708)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: Historic landscape assessment of Syndale Park Motel, Faversham (Ref: 68521) (EKE12704)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: RCHME: Kent Mapping Project (EKE20439)
  • Intrusive Event: SOUTH OF WATERSEND BRIDGE (Ref: EI 36093) (EKE4448)

Record last edited

Jul 30 2024 2:15PM