Monument record TQ 75 SE 154 - Iron Age Earthwork, with ditch at Amber Green Cottage, Boughton Monchelsea

Iron Age Earthwork, with ditch and pits at Amber Green Cottage, Boughton Monchelsea. Three pits which were only excavated to a depth of 0.2m to reveal the nature of the deposits below the topsoil.

Remnant of southern ditch associated with earthwork. Considerable remains of single bank earthwork along the northern edge towards Marlpit Farm. Steep sided V-cut ditch on East-West alignment to the bank which is probably part of the same ditch system.(1)

Watching brief, in September 2003. Brief concluded that the roadside ditch probably forms part of the Late Iron Age earthwork system on the evidence of earlier projects, but the watching brief itself produced 'nothing of archaeological interest'. (2)

A watching brief carried out to the east in 2019 identified further evidence for the ditch of the earthwork, however, no dateable finds were recovered during the excavation. (3)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2002, An Archaeological Evaluation at Amber Green Cottage, Boughton Monchelsea (Unpublished document). SKE13694.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2003, An Archaeological Watching brief at Amber Green Cottage, Boughton Monchelsea (Unpublished document). SKE13695.

<3> Ravelin Archaeological Services, 2019, Nuthatch, Back Lane, Boughton Monchelsea, Maidstone, Kent ME17 4JP, Archaeological watching brief report (Unpublished document). SKE53083.