The medieval features on Thanet Earth dated to between the mid-eleventh century to the early part of the fourteenth (possibly extending to AD 1350). The activity is primarily agricultural in nature with significant elements of domestic occupation. The earliest features were a sequence of drove roads or trackways, defined by either hollow ways or pairs of ditches. Six trackways were identified, all appear to date to c.1050-1175, and some followed the lines or earlier ditches/banks/routeways. In association with these were a number of rectangular fields, delineated by ditches, sometimes contiguous with those of the drove roads

Trackway 30 was probably the most important of the routes that were uncovered, it is the forerunner of Seamark Road, part of an ancient, probably prehistoric way between Monkton and Birchington along the eastern margin of the site. Other routes were mostly aligned north-south across the site the exception being a putative track (Trackway 35) that extended east-west across the centre of the site, partly following the course of the parish boundary between Monkton and St Nicholas-at-Wade. This line, which developed from a much older prehistoric boundary partly defined by a substantial ditch. A site wide system of enclosures appears to be intimately related to these various trackways.

At the northern part of the site at least five large rectilinear fields, also defined by ditches, were arranged between the two central droveways. They primarily spanned Trackways 28 and 29 and although this grid was not found in the areas to east and west, it could have extended in truncated or unexposed form as far east as Seamark Road. The fields, as far as they could be delineated, were arrayed on either side of a generally straight north-south aligned ditch that spanned the entire northern part of the site, from the south edge of Plateau 2 to the sites northern limit, a distance of over 720m. (1) (information summarised from source)

A length of hollow way of Medieval date was visible as a cropmark in NMR 2639/3127 01-AUG-1985. Approximately 145m was 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, SKE57106 (Archive). SKE57106.