Monument record TR 34 NE 256 - Probable Bronze Age Ditches and Gullies, St Margaret's at Cliffe

A small group of ditches/gullies, re-cut at least once on a slightly different line, which seem likely to relate to a group of ditched enclosures running diagonally across the hillside. A 1.65 m gap between two of the ditches might represent an entrance. In this area a complex of stake-holes which could relate to successive fences that blocked the causeway.

The arcing nature of one of the ditches could have been due to some pre-existing structure, possibly circular and to the east, which required a deviation. On the eastern side of the ditch a number of stake holes were found, but these were insufficient to postulate a building here. A number of worked flints were recovered, mainly from the ditches, of a late bronze age date. The struck flints were predominantly hard hammer-struck and inaddition two end scrapers, two hammerstones,a d a core possibly reused as a hammerstone.(1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2002, Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief on the Deal-Dover Bulk Supply Water Main (Unpublished document). SKE12191.