Nashenden Valley, ARC NSH 97 (Wessex Archaeology)

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Union Railways Limited to carry out an archaeological evaluation on a site to the south of Borstal, near Rochester (centred on URL grid point 53100 45750; NGR grid point TQ 73000 65800), known as Nashenden Valley. The potential for archaeological remains within the evaluation area was identified as part of the Environmental Assessment of the CTRL (URL 1994) which included fieldwalking survey (URL 1995). This potential was defined as the possibility of subsoil features or deposits of archaeological interest that may be associated with, or in close proximity to, the recorded surface concentrations of medieval pottery and prehistoric worked flint and the possibility of discovering land surfaces, features or deposits of archaeological interest buried at depth beneath colluvium.