A solitary early neolithic pit was discovered roughly centrally within the excavations at the 'Thanet Earth' site, on Plateau 3. it included an assemblage of worked flint including a polished axe.

Pit S3205 was 0.73m in diameter and 0.22m deep had a slightly double-dished profile. It was filled with a dark grey brown silty clay with fragments of charcoal, flint and burnt flint. About 40 sherds of undiagnostic pottery were recovered from the fill, along with 30 pieces of early Neolithic worked flint, including 15 complete flakes or blades and the butt end of a polished flint axe. Some of these artefacts appeared to have been deliberately placed at the base and around the sides of the pit; the polished axe fragment lay at the edge of the feature on the western side. Environmental remains were sparse, although some hazelnut fragments were present. A carbon sample from the pit was radiocarbon dated to 3696–3540 cal BC (information summarised from source) (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2023, Beneath the Seamark: 6000 Years of an Islands History (Monograph). SKE55405.