Saltwood Tunnel (North of), ARC SLT 98

Between January 1999 and March 1999 Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd (CAT) was commissioned by Union Railways (South) Ltd (URS) to undertake detailed archaeological investigations on a suspected Roman settlement north of Saltwood Tunnel, north of the village of Saltwood, Kent. This work formed part of an extensive programme of archaeological investigation carried out in advance of the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. The investigation produced evidence for a long lived though dispersed settlement commencing in the early Iron Age and continuing through to the early or Middle Saxon period, a span of a millennium from the 6th century BC to the 6th or 7th century AD. A discrete area of early medieval occupation succeeded this in the central zone.