Elements of a field system found during a watching brief on land subject to sand extraction. Linear features similar to those found on an adjacent site in 1995. Pottery evidence is poor and it is difficult to clearly establish if these ditches are part of late Iron Age/early Romano-British or medieval field systems adjacent to this site (TQ 94 NW 53 & 56). A group of circular bowl-shaped depressions were also excavated which were found to contain quantities of charcoal and burnt clay. Other than one fragment of late Iron Age/early Roman pottery, no datable evidence was found. Features such as these found on other sites in the south-east have been identified as either hearths or small furnaces. (1)
An archaeological report in 2014 was carried out in the area. Three ditches were excavated believing to form a rectangular field system, these were dated from the Mid-late Iron Age. 5 small pits were also excavated and are possibly in association with the field system. The excavcation also established the prescence of a medieval field system. A ditch a a large concentration of shallow pits were found with sherds of pot dating it to AD 1225-1300. (2)

<1> Archaeology South-East, 1999, Post-Excavation Assessment of Brett's Charing Sand Pit, Tile Lodge Farm, Charing, Kent. (Unpublished document). SKE7324.

<2> Archaeology South-East, 2014, Final Archaeological report. Charing Quarry, Hook Lane, Charing, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31253.