In 2012 Wessex Archaeology carried out a strip, map and sample excavation on the North Kent Community Church. A pit was found containing residual material of Late Bronze Age to Late Iron Age date. The presence of free-threshing wheat, fish bones and hulled wheat, however, suggested a Roman date for the feature. It had been recut at some point and so could be of earlier origin, the recut having occurred in the Roman period.

Two coins and a lead rivet, possibly from a pot repair, were found unstratified on the site. (1)

The pit measured 2.11m in length and 1.48m in width with near vertical sides and a flat base to
a depth of 1.02m. The pit appeared to have undergone a later phase of re-cutting [116] to a
depth of 0.59m followed by natural silting and an episode of deliberate dumping (118) comprising brown grey clay sand with frequent charcoal and CBM and finds including animal bone and pottery provisionally dating to the prehistoric (LBA-LIA) period. A layer of mid brown grey clay silt with modern charcoal and CBM flecks (119) subsequently underlay natural slumping (128 and 129) on the northern and southern extent of the re-cut pit followed by the final fill comprising mid grey brown clay silt with moderate charcoal and CBM inclusions (120). Fragmented animal bone, burnt flint,
fired clay and worked flint was retrieved from fills (119) and (120).

Two fragments of provisionally dated prehistoric pottery were retrieved from the fill along with a single worked flint.

Location accurate to 2m based on available information.

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2012, North Kent Community Church, Springhead, Ebbsfleet, Kent: Archaeological Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE18142.