Cropmarks of a ring ditch, probably a Bronze Age barrow with a diameter of 16.6m which is visible on aerial photographs: CUCAP ALA55 04-JUN-1965 which has been mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024. This site lies within the extensive cropmark remains of a probable Roman settlement (TR 36 NW 44). The site of the ring ditch now lies beneath housing at the southern edge of Garlinge and may have been destroyed. (1)

The site of this ring ditch was investigated during an archaeological evaluation of the area in 2018. four sections of the ring ditch were exposed and a possible pit representing the location of a central burial was also seen. The ditch corresponds exactly with the cropmark. Excavation of a section demonstrated that the ring ditch had been recut, to a slightly larger diameter than the primary inner cut. (2)

<1> Historic England Archive, 1949-1976, Historic England Archive CUCAP oblique aerial photographs, CUCAP ALA55 04-JUN-1965 (Archive). SKE57107.

<2> Thanet Archaeological Projects, 2018, Land at Brooke Avenue, Garlinge, Margate, Kent, Archaeological evaluation report (Unpublished document). SKE52366.