The medieval features consist of trackways (including the Pilgrims Way itself) and a plough-levelled hollow way running north-south across the Pilgrims Way site. The bridleway which crosses the White Hoorse Stone site, traditionally identified as the line of the Rochester to Hastings Roman Road, produced moderd material from wheel ruts cut into the chalk at the base of the hollow way. However, the depth of the hollow way (which has been filled within the last 15 years), suggests that it may be at least medieval in origin. The only other medieval feature comprises a corn drier found on the Pilgrims Way site, which utilised sarsen fragments in its construction, and possibly a human burial found next to the Pilgrims Way.

A section excavated throught the Pilgrims Way failed to identify any trackway surfaces earlier than the medieval period. The human burial found beside the track, near the top of the sequence, should provide some useful radiocarbon dating evidence for the underlying colluvial sequence(1).

(See TQ 76 SE 58, TQ 76 SE 59 and TQ 76 SE 60)

<1> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1999, White Horse Stone, Pilgrims Way and West of Boarley Farm Detailed Archaeological Works Interim Repor (Unpublished document). SKE7043.

<2> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1999, White Horse Stone, Pilgrims Way and West of Boarley Farm Archaeological Works Interim Report Final (Unpublished document). SKE7079.