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. A site wide system of enclosures appears to be intimately related to various trackways across the site. The activity around these enclosures has been grouped into a number of Medieval ‘sites’. Site 1 was located at the extreme northern end of the investigation, it comprised a complex of features including three enclosures and three definite and two possible sunken-featured structures. Activity here appears to largely date to between 1075 and 1175, though one enclosure may be later (up to c. 1250)

The pottery from these three enclosures and their associated features suggests that they were amongst the earliest medieval enclosures on the site. Enclosure 64 was located immediately west of Trackway 28 and was possibly coeval with it or slightly later. It had an internal area of about 21 by 25m, aligned north-south longitudinally with apparently intentional gaps or entrances, 3–4m across on its western corners. A further enclosure (Enclosure 63), or possibly a subdivision of Enclosure 64, was represented by an inverted 'L' shaped ditch, enclosing an area 14.4m north-south, c. 8.5m east-west. Enclosure 60 was one of the few of this phase found east of the droveway here and consisted of a relatively small corral-type layout defined by curvilinear and fragmented ditches which formed an extended horseshoe shape open on the west or drove side, 9m across east-west and about 6.5m wide. Though no structures were identified with the earliest phase of these enclosures, occupation is suggested by relatively large corpus of rubbish pits was dug in the area, but unfortunately cannot be ascribed accurately to any particular sub-phase of activity. Most of the features were situated to the west of the enclosures and yielded shellfish and large sherds of early medieval cooking pots, but most were very shallow. A later set of wider but generally shallow ditches overlay and may have replaced the previous arrangement still extending at near right angles from the western side of the earlier droveway but ranging further west. Five possible sunken-featured structures were found in this area, four cutting the northern ditch and mostly aligned with it, one the southern ditch and the drove road itself. Most of these contained an oven/hearth and were associated with pottery and domestic debris that dated to between 1050 and 1175. The latest feature identified at site 1 was an enclosure ditch which was traced for approximately 59m in length on a near east-west alignment and became more north-east to south-west aligned at its western extent. Some of the pottery from this ditch dated to c. 1150– 1250 and such a later phase is supported by the stratigraphy as the ditch cut all of the other features that it traversed. (1) (information summarised from source)

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