Gallions Reach Urban Village, Central Way, Western Way, SE18 TQ 4535 8015 MoLAS (D Saxby) evaluation Feb 1997 Thamesmead Town GAC97
In two of 54 trial holes evidence of prehistoric activity was represented by struck flints, fire-cracked flint, animal bone and charcoal found on the surface of the natural sandy clay. They were sealed by the Tilbury III peat deposit dating to the Late Mesolithic - Early Neolithic period. In the other trial holes the Tilbury III peat deposit was overlaid by a sterile clay above which lay the Tilbury IV peat deposit, dating to the Late Bronze Age. At the W end of the site a river channel was located: it was filled with layered silt and peat and probably dates to the Bronze Age or Iron Age.