Watching brief on groundworks associated with residential development on "Dickson Land" to the rear of 48 Canterbury Road, Hawkinge. The work identified EIA quarry pits and probable ovens and furnaces, together with traces of settlement. A Late IA/Early Conquest settlement with cremations/pyre deposits and elements of possibly medieval or later field system, were also found.

A total of 6 ditches, 1 gully and 24 pits were discovered from the EIA period which spread across the development site. Pottery was found in a number of the features. Eight small pits contained significant quantities of EIA pottery, in most cases from a single vessel, and may have been truncated burials. Flecks of cremated bone and burnt sandstone was ocasionally present.

Another large pit which produced a large quantity of EIA pottery, together with loomweights, a complete cup and probable kiln furniture probably represented the remains of a kiln or furnace associated with iron working. A number of other pits, one possibly connected with extraction for ironworking, were found to contain burnt material or possible residue of ironworking.(1)

<1> Archaeology South-East, 2000, Post-Excavation Assessment of Archaeological Investigations at Land of Canterbury Road, Hawkinge (Unpublished document). SKE7508.