The fifth barrow uncovered during the Thanet Earth excavations was located on a gentle north-east facing slope on the west side of a shallow dry valley at 26.5m OD. It consisted of a ring ditch made up of five interlinked elongated segments which formed a slightly irregular sub oval shape, approximately 10m in diameter. Two graves were located adjacent to each other lying slightly north of centre within the ring-ditch. One produced a radiocarbon date of 2452–2062 cal BC. It is possible that this feature was a ceremonial enclosure rather than a barrow.

The segments varied in length between 3m and 7m and were on average 0.7m wide at the top, tapering to 0.3m at the bottom. Depth varied between segments, but had a mean depth of 0.38m and a maximum depth of 0.7m in places. A small assemblage of finds from the fills of the segments included a small beaker base and seven sherds of late Neolithic pottery dated to 2900–2200 BC. One of the graves was badly preserved but enough remained of the other to show that it was an adult female (36–44 years old). Both were crouched and the poorly preserved example was accompanied by a crushed ceramic Beaker of East Anglian style, an undatable copper alloy pin-like object. It was the earliest of the ring-ditches excavated and also enclosed the earliest beaker burials examined. The slightly irregular ring-ditch was a less substantial feature than all the other early monuments. This type of monument may well form part of an east Kent or Thanet tradition of such features, as other small oval segmented barrows in Thanet have been recorded, sufficiently distinctive for Perkins (1999, 41–42) to separate them into a specific class which appear also to be commonly constructed using five segments. (information summarised from source) (1)

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