During pipeline works on the Kingston to Canterbury Pipeline in 2005 an archaeological investigation was carried out.Within the colluvium were found fragments of oyster shell, 19 sherds of undiagnostic abraded prehistoric pottery and two thin sherds of later Medieval Tyler Hill Ware, three sherds of abraded peg tile and 2 flint pot boilers. A significant number of pottery sherds datable to the Bronze/Iron Age were recovered. One degraded fragment of bone and a part of a mid to late Saxon copper alloy horse harness fitting was recovered. Two layers of of light brown colluvial clay were separated by a layer of much darker soil which was the probable remnant of of prehistoric cultivation terraces.(1)

<1> Kent Archaeological Projects, 2006, Archaeological works undertaken along the Mid Kent Water Kingston to Canterbury Pipeline: Assessment report (Unpublished document). SKE12975.