During excavations associated with the construction of a swimming pool at Bradstow school, an assemblage of Worked flints were found. The majority of the worked flints were recovered from the fills of the ring-ditch occurring in relatively even proportions throughout the deposits. Much of the struck flint is typologically undiagnostic and not helpful in dating the assemblage. Some of the strongly patinated flintwork, such as well executed blades struck from blade cores and the tip of a long end scraper, are likely to be at least Neolithic in date and are evidence of human activity pre-dating the round barrow. The most numerous flintwork types, forming 71% of the assemblage, was waste material produced by knapping raw flint nodules to create tools,. The material comprised a core and many waste flakes, including one of two core rejuvenation flakes. Twenty nine percent of the assemblage comprised tools on retouched and utilised flakes, 61% of these were retouched flakes, where the edge of a flake had been re-worked with the removal of additional small trimming, shaping, blunting or sharpening flakes in order to create a specific tool. Most of these tools only feature small areas of expedient, marginal and non-invasive retouch. Only a few are of a formally defined 'type'. including a serrated flake, the tip of long end scraper on a blade flake and possibly a simple end scraper on a small longer flake. One blade, utilised as a knife, featured retouch which suggested hafting, while a second blade from the same layer may be another hafted knife or a long end scraper with heavily utilised edges. The remaining 39% of the tools were utilised flakes, where edges of otherwise un-modified flakes were used as tools. The macroscopic recognition of utilised edges is difficult, particularly on residual material. Only examples showing clear and consistent macroscopic damage, less likely to have been caused by random natural abrasion, were included in this category. The majority of such flakes present in this assemblage feature thin edges that would have been utilised for cutting. The general character of the flintwork assemblage suggests that it is not likely to date from later than the Early Bronze Age (c.2000-l600 BC) and a proportion is likely to be at least Neolithic (c.4000-2000 BC). (information summarised from source)

<1> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 2009, Bradstow School, 34 Dumpton Park Drive, Broadstairs, Kent: Interim Archaeological Report (Unpublished document). SKE17932.

<2> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 2009, Bradstow School, 34 Dumpton Park Drive, Broadstairs, Kent: Archaeological Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE24842.