A scatter of cut features was recorded along the eastern boundary of the site. Dating of these features has proved problematic; some contained pottery of Neolithic or Bronze Age date, and many did not produce any chronologically diagnostic finds at all. On balance, it is considered most likely that the majority of these features represent the periphery of a middle – late Bronze Age focus of activity that lay mostly beyond the eastern boundary of the excavation, the Neolithic material found in some features generally thought to be residual. No clear spatial patterning or function for the features could be discerned.

The most southerly was a shallow subcircular pit. While the fill of this feature contained five fresh sherds of possible Neolithic pottery, two abraded sherds of possible Bronze Age date were also present. Approximately 70m to the north of the first pit were two further pits. No finds were found in the fills of either feature. A group of three features lay 14m to the north-northeast of these; an elongated pit, a small oval pit and another elongated pit, truncated at its northern end by a later feature. No finds were recovered from any of these features, though small quantities of charcoal, seeds and fragments of oyster and mussel shell were recorded from the fill of one. Just 2.7m to the north was a large shallow pit with a fill that contained 22 middle – late Bronze Age potsherds. Several shallow pits seemed to be spatially associated with this, including an elongated pit, aligned approximately north-west to south-east. Its silt fill contained small fragments of mammal bone, charcoal and traces of oyster shell, as well as four potsherds of possible Neolithic date. This fill had been cut by a small subcircular pit possibly a truncated post-hole, which produced a single Beaker sherd. Approximately 5.6m to the southwest of this, was a roughly circular pit or hollow. Further features, the nearest approximately 4m to the north-east, included an adjacent pair of small postholes. About 0.5m to the west was another pair of somewhat larger pits or post-holes. Only one feature in the group produced finds; four abraded potsherds (possibly Neolithic) and a single (burnt) flint flake. Two more pits straddled Segment 10 of the Inner Arc of the causewayed enclosure. The most southerly contained 16 potsherds; most are thought to be possibly Neolithic but at least two abraded sherds are of Bronze Age date. The pit also contained a single flint flake. A wider and deeper pit cut the fill of the segment on its northern edge. A group of four circular small pits/post-holes had been cut into the fill of the central area of Segment 10 of the Inner Arc of the Neolithic enclosure. This group was in a linear arrangement with diameters ranging between 0.14 and 0.28m, with steep sides and curved bases. They were all relatively shallow, being no more than 0.15m deep. Approximately 1.4m to the north was another small pit cutting the terminal of Segment 8 of the Inner Arc of the causewayed enclosure. It produced no finds but contained a concentration of preserved grain including spelt (Triticum spelta). Three small pits/post-holes, quite evenly spaced, were located some 5m to the north. There was some diversity in their depth and profiles, but the configuration of the features suggests some association between them, potentially structural. Approximately 12.5m to the north-east of this feature was a more elongated pit. The earliest deposit filling the feature contained quantities of medium-large sized natural angular flints. Seven flint cores, a struck lump and an anvil were also present, along with a hammerstone and 40 flakes (two refitting, one derived from a hammerstone), two blades (one serrated, one utilised) and 64 fragments of knapping debris. A fossil sea urchin was recovered, along with 31 fragments of heat-affected clay. Five abraded sherds of middle Bronze Age pottery were also recovered from this deposit. Many of the lithic finds from the feature probably derive from a disturbed Neolithic context. A little over 7m to the north-west were further pits of more certain middle – late Bronze Age date. Further to the north was a group of 11 potential postholes as well as a larger pit. A little to the north of this group was a scatter of five post-holes, whilst to the north-east was a small oval pit associated with a cluster of smaller subcircular post-holes.
(information summarised from source) (1-2)

<1> 2019, Chalk Hill - Neolithic and Bronze Age Discoveries at Ramsgate, Kent (Monograph). SKE56208.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1997, Excavations at Chalk Hill, near Ramsgate, Kent 1997-98: Integrated assessment & updated research design (Unpublished document). SKE29640.