The second barrow discovered at the Thanet Earth excavations, was situated on a fairly gentle south facing slope and at about 31.5mOD. It comprised single ditch approximately half of which was exposed . It was about 26m in diameter making it the largest of the ring-ditches at Thanet Earth. It was associated with 5 graves which were located in the central area of the ring ditch.

The ditch had an average width of 2.4m at the top and 1m at the base, with a mean depth of 1.2m. The primary infilling of the ditch consisted of a sequence of naturally accumulated chalk rubble and yellow, grey, orange and brown discoloured silt. Few finds were retrieved from these deposits apart from animal bone, a few early Bronze Age pottery sherds dated to 2300–1600 BC and some worked flint. A small group of fresh and unabraded Early Bronze Age flintwork from one of the basal fills probably represent knapping debris from the reduction of two or three flint nodules in the vicinity soon after the construction of the ditch. The complexity of this primary sequence suggests that these deposits accumulated over a relatively long period of time, probably through processes of
erosion. Overlyingt this was a midden deposit containing a high density of finds that included pottery (dated 1300-1100 BC). This later ditch fill attested to continuing, possibly ritualised use of the monument into the mid to late Bronze Age. Five graves were located within the central area of the ring ditch. Aligned in a linear distribution running north east to south-west from the centre, all were in a poor state of preservation. One was associated with several sherds of pottery, including a Beaker sherd (2300–1600 BC) within the backfill of the grave. Five heavily truncated pits lay to the north of the burials. They were filled with orange and grey-brown silt and varied between 0.05m and 0.2m deep.

The size of the ditch would suggest that if the monument was a straightforward bell barrow with a central mound, then this would have been substantial. It seems likely that the burials took place prior to the construction of any mound, or that the monument never had any substantial mound at all. That the ring-ditch never possessed a large central mound and was not originally a funerary monument could also explain the apparent dichotomy between its seemingly rather insignificant burials. (information summarised from source) (1)

A ring ditch forming part of a round barrow of Bronze Age date was visible as a cropmark in NMR 2639/3127 01-AUG-1985. The ring ditch's north and east side was visible (this part was not excavated during the work described by authority 1) and mapped as part of the Historic England Isle of Thanet project in 2024. (2)

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

<2> Historic England Archive, 1920-2024, Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs, NMR 2639/3127 01-AUG-1985 (Archive). SKE57106.