Roman road surfaces have been discovered around here before, notably at the Cantium Retail Park a little to the north-west. That discovery was slightly south of the course of the modern Old Kent Road, however. Parts of the thoroughfare have clearly shifted around over the centuries.

Archaeologists long suspected an ancient Roman road cut through modern-day London, but its exact route remained a mystery — until now. The 2,000-year-old route known as Roman Watling Street began in modern-day Dover on the southeastern tip of the United Kingdom,