Iron Age ditch(es) were excavated in 2011 on the former site of Hallet's Garage, Canterbury. The ditches have been "described as parts of field systems, (or) evidence of an agrarian land use but the ditches, widely separated and on various alignments may equally have marked tenurial or administrative boundaries or have had some other utilitarian function such as drainage given the location close to the valley floor. Their presence, however, does demonstrate the presence of a riverside landscape that was being managed and utilized as early as the late Iron Age period, between circa 100 BC and the mid first century AD" (from the original report (1)). (This information was retrieved from the background material of a desk-based assessment of a nearby site).

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 2016, Station Road West Car Park, Canterbury, Kent Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE52686.