In 1998 Museum of London Archaeology Service carried out an excavation as part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project. A cremation burial dating to the Early Bronze Age was found. It was contained within an inverted Collared Urn in a small circular pit. The urn was a straight-sided vessel with decoration around the collar and on the rim bevel with impressed twisted cord, forming filled triangles and horizontal lines, of late style (Second Series South Eastern). (1-2)

<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, The Prehistoric, Roman and Medieval Landscape at Northumberland Bottom, Southfleet, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE17842.

<2> Museum of London Archaeology Service, Oct 2001, Area 330 (Zone 3) Northumberland Bottom (ARC WNB 98) Archaeological Post Excavation Report (Unpublished document). SWX12866.