Surface collection and limited trial-trenching by the late Dr. J. Ogilvie in 1981-3 at Ovenden's Hammill brickpit produced evidence of three periods of occupation: Early Iron Age, Late Iron Age-Romano-British and early Post-Roman. The site archive and excavation finds are with Dover Museum.

A small quantity of organic-tempered pottery was found including one sherd from a sub-biconical jar with simple vertical and linear decoration suggesting a date of 575-650 AD. The sherds are thought to be from an adjacent site. The sherds imply occupation of the site into either the remains of a previously managed Roman landscape or around the edges of one that was tended to some extent by a remnant Romano-British population. (1)

<1> MacPherson-Grant, N., 1999, Researches and Discoveries in Kent: 8 Iron Age and Later Pottery, Eastry, Arch Cant CXIX 378-380 (Article in serial). SKE8224.