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 7 was located just over 15m south of Enclosures 26–32, along the western edge of Plateau 1 was similar in many ways to the two farmstead sites recorded on Plateau 2 but were relatively badly preserved and not fully exposed. It is also later than the other farmstead sites (1, 2, 4 and 5) it is therefore possible that it was a translocation of the Site 2 settlement to slightly higher and dryer ground. Site 7, which may have been situated in an earlier quarry, did not seem to be bounded by any enclosure ditches, although the regular rectangular shape of the depression suggested that it may have originally been enclosed, the ditches mostly removed by later truncation. A number of intercutting linear features in the north- and south-eastern corners of the area may be all that remains of any such enclosure. Activity seems to have occurred both in the base of the quarry and on its margins. A Type 1 sunken-featured structure situated in the north east corner of the area was an early feature and may again represent an originally isolated example. There were some rather amorphous subrectangular features in the south-eastern corner, some of which may have been Type 3 structures, and a smaller, more likely candidate on the south edge. Within the quarried area, at least some of the basal hollows may have represented sunken structures, while on the eastern edge were more underground chambers, although these had mostly collapsed. A few pits contained domestic refuse such as pottery, animal bone and marine shell, while other features included a well at the western side of the area, and towards the centre of the site, a subrectangular six-post structure about 2.8m across. These posts were evenly distributed around the edge of a platform of densely packed flints, likely to be the base of an oven or hearth. This undoubtedly represents another building, and may be related to another hollow directly to the west. Also in this area, and again possibly within a structure, were two adjacent small and shallow pits that each contained the truncated remnant of a large pottery vessel of late thirteenth/early fourteenth century date, inserted upright and tightly fitted into the pit. Similar features have been found elsewhere on Thanet Earth (also in pairs), and on similarly dated settlements in Kent, often within buildings. Various functions for these have been proposed, including ritualistic purposes, but here the vessels were probably used for storing liquids. This site can therefore be seen as similar to the more completely exposed farmsteads represented by Sites 2, 4 and 5, with a suite of buildings, some
probably domestic residences and others used for various agricultural processes, with the usual presence of a well and places for the storage of raw materials or produce. The difference with this site is its location within a quarry and its later date (1) (information summarised from source)

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