During excavations associated with the construction of the East Kent Access routeway in Thanet, a deposit, which was originally interpreted as a possible midden, but which turned out to be an alluvial deposit, was discovered. It was located towards the south eastern corner of Zone 4 and extended over an area of 60m squared and was around 0.2m deep. Moderate quantities of late Bronze Age pottery, worked flint, fired clay and burnt flint were recovered from the layer. The spread represents the westernmost edge of a more extensive deposit that was investigated in an earlier investigation, verall the deposit covered 475m squared. This deposit may have accumulated in a wet/marginal area within a shallow natural hollow, and possibly served as a location for ‘special deposits’ as evidenced by two hoards of metalwork found in 2004-2005. Other features within the vicinity of the layer include a gully and some post holes, it is possible that these were positioned to demarcated the edge of the wet area and were subsequently sealed by it. To the north west of the layer a series of late Bronze Age ditches appear to enclose the area of the alluvial deposit. Due to modern truncation the full extent of the enclosure is not known though a re cut Iron Age ditch may have once formed part of it, and ditches discovered during the Margate to Weatherlees Watse Water Pipeline may have also formed further parts of the same enclosure. (information summarised from source) (1)

<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2011, East Kent Access (Phase II), Thanet, Kent: Post-Excavation Assessment Volume 1 (Unpublished document). SKE29279.