An archaeological evaluation was carried out in 2008 at Dane Court Grammar School in advance of construction work. 10 evaluation trenches were excavated across the site. In the south-west area of the site in trench 4 a 2m-wide pit, posthole and ditch (aligned north-south and 1.7 m wide and 0.45 m deep) were found filled with pottery dating to the late iron age / early Roman transition. An east-west ditch was found in trench 5 that contained a single sherd of late iron age / early Roman pottery and some prehistoric flint Trench 10 contained three intercutting ditches which contained undiagnostic flint and an uncertain sherd. The site was interpeted as representing a small number of features associated with a Roman field system.(1)

<1> Oxford Archaeology, 2008, Dane Court Grammar School, Broadstairs, Kent: archaeological evaluation report (Unpublished document). SKE51646.