The paddock lies c. 100m north of Walmer Castle and is in the care of English Heritage. Since it proved impractical (on engineering grounds) to avoid this location for siting a buried attenuation tank and pipeline, a phased evaluation was carried out in 1993-4 comprising an earthwork survey followed by trial trenching. The most notable archaeological feature recorded was a Late Neolithic or Bronze Age ring-ditch. Overall diameter was estimated at approximately 25m, between 1.5 and 2.0m wide and between 0.65 and 0.75m deep. Two small adjacent pits were recorded within the ring-ditch. These features may concievably represent the remains of a Bronze Age barrow containing residual Neolithic sherds.

Approximately 15m north of the ring ditch two Romano-British pits were located but the evidence for Romano-British activity in the paddock is very slight and the foci of such activity undoubtedly lay beyond the extent of the excavation area(1).

(See TR 35 SE 406)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1999, Archaeological Observations in Dover, Folkestone and Deal: 1993-1998 - Final Report (Unpublished document). SKE7212.