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 21 comprised only one possible sunken-featured structure (SFB 74), immediately adjacent to Trackway 31/32, in the relatively small northern part of Plateau 7, and three slightly later pits. The structure itself was unusual due to its location isolated from any enclosure, but situated within the orbit of prehistoric Barrow 2, in the south-west quadrant atop, or cut into what remained of its mound. It comprised a irregular sub-rectangular cut, about 4m long at maximum, 3.14m wide. No occupation horizons or definite structural features were identified, although some of the depressions recorded in its base might have been shallow post settings. The sunken-featured structure was recorded as cut by two of three near contemporary pits. They were irregular in profile and contained domestic material including pottery dated at the latest to AD 1200–1300. Although the trackways may have originated before the medieval period, they are both described here as they only contained medieval material. The earlier Trackway 31 (G7027) survived for approximately 7m in length, aligned north-east to south west where it truncated the upper fill of the ditch of Barrow 2. This feature and the barrow ditch were cut by Trackway 32 (G7028) a linear cut traced for approximately 18m in length, on a roughly north-south alignment curving to the east slightly at its southern extent and probably merging with the original course of Trackway 31. The pottery from both these features indicates a mainly thirteenth to early fourteenth century date, with some suggestion that Track 31 was slightly earlier.Interestingly some of this may have been deposited in the fifteenth century which would represent the latest sign of medieval activity on the entire site. This may possibly relate to a settlement that aggregated around the medieval Monkton Mill, a later version of which was located on Plateau 6. The evidence is therefore strongly indicative of nearby domestic occupation. It seems likely that the settlement thus indicated, which may have lasted into the fifteenth century on the ceramic evidence, was to the north of Plateau 7 in an unexcavated part of the site. (1) (information summarised from source)

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