IA/Me/Ne site first identified by watching brief and field walking in 1992 at plot 13 of the Park Farm development centred on TR 0133 3980. A circular feature with 4 1st C Ro sherds and 3 Me/Ne blades in the fill. Around this and to the W were found large quantities if Belgic pottery of 75BC - 125 AD date and Me/Ne worked flints inc some imported material (3) A series of 4 trenches were dug in 1993, centred on TR 0130 3974. Trench A at TR 0131 3977 comprised gullies (land boundaries) and ditches, finds consisting of IA-RB pottery dating from 100 BC- 250 AD, flint flakes, iron slag, daub, animal bone and MD land drain. Trench B (TR 0128 3971) showed evidence of a RB building with the discovery of marble and sandstone building materials (C1-2 AD) Other features consisted of post-holes, ditches, gullies, 1 ditch representing portions of an IA settlement, the gullies probably representing land boundaries, or possibly forming a rampart and ditches with the contemporary post-holes (back-filled EC2). Finds again comprised of flints, pottery and daub. Trench C (TR 0127 3974) also showing portions of the IA settlement and fragments of RB pottery (50-125 AD) and mortaria. Trench D (TR 0126 3941) contained a gully and modern finds. (1) Report on stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental significance, 1993. (2)

Additional Information (4,5,6,7)

During a 2015 study of the Palaeolithic of East Kent Francis Wenban-Smith recalled that there had been an unpublished Late Upper Palaeolithic aspect ot this site in the form of two flint tools dating to c. 13,000 and 10,000 BC.

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Arch assessment Park Farm, CAT, 1992. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> Geoarchaeological Service Facility, 1993, A Report on the Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironemntal Significance of Archaeological Deposits at Plot 13, Park Farm Ashford, Report on strat. and palaeoenvironmental significance of arch. deposits at Plot 13, Park Farm, Insti (Unpublished document). SKE11999.

<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1992, Park Farm Ashford Watching Brief notes (Unpublished document). SKE6812.

<6> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1993, Park Farm Land parcel 13 assessment (Unpublished document). SKE6828.

<7> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994, Results of meeting between CAT and Leicester University (Unpublished document). SKE6870.