Ebbsfleet Valley

Ebbsfleet Valley in Kent, England, is an extraordinarily rich archaeological landscape spanning from the Palaeolithic to the modern era. The valley gave its name to the Ebbsfleet style of Early Neolithic pottery, first identified during 1960 excavations alongside flint tools and a possible timber trackway. Extensive campaigns from 1989 to 2003 uncovered Bronze Age ring ditches, metalwork hoards, and Iron Age enclosures. Most strikingly, a 2010 excavation revealed a large defensive ditch containing a Roman pilum (javelin) and 1st-century BC pottery, providing the first hard evidence that Julius Caesar's 54 BC invasion fleet landed at nearby Pegwell Bay.