Editing Blackheath, London (section)

===Archaeology===
A key [[Ancient trackway#Great Britain|Celtic trackway]] (becoming a [[Roman road]] and later [[Watling Street]]) scaled the rise that is shared with [[Greenwich Park]] and a peak {{convert|1|mi}} [[boxing the compass|east-by-southeast]], [[Shooters Hill]]. In the west this traversed the mouth of [[Deptford Creek]] (the [[River Ravensbourne]]) (a corruption or throwback to earlier pronunciation of deep ford).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dartfordarchive.org.uk/early_history/transport_rs.shtml|title=Roman and Saxon Roads and Transport|work=dartfordarchive.org.uk|author=Dartford Grammar School|publisher=Kent County Council}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Patrick Hanks|author2=Flavia Hodges|author3=A. D. Mills|author4=Adrian Room|title=The Oxford Names Companion|date=2002|location=Oxford|publisher=the University Press|isbn=978-0198605614|page=1003}}</ref> Other finds can be linked to passing trade connected with royal palaces. In 1710, several Roman urns were dug up, two of which were of fine red clay, one of a spherical, and the other of a cylindrical, form; and in 1803, several more were discovered in the gardens of the [[Earl of Dartmouth]] and given to the [[British Museum]].<ref name=sl/>