Area I was a portion of the Grain-Shorne pipeline in a valley bottom north of the village of Cliff Woods excavated in 2008.

The area earliest evidence of activity in the area consisted of residual Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flint recovered from later features.

In the Middle Bronze Age a large enclosure ditch and a series of pits were dug. Most of these contained finds of Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age date and could well date to the Late Bronze Age. The ditch was 17m long, 4m wide and 0.96m deep. It was aligned east to west and produced a single briquetage pedestal. The pits were up to 1m in diameter and 0.2m deep. One contained briquetage wedge fragments. One group of pits were of similar size but did not form any recognisable pattern.

Late Bronze Age activity included a ditch that may have been a replacement for the earlier enclosure ditch. It was 120m long and on average 1.8m wide and 0.4m deep. Three north-south aligned gullies were contemporary; they were 0.8m wide and 0.22m deep. A pit group of eight sub-circular pits up to 1.4m in diameter also dates to this phase of activity. (1-2)

<1> Archaeology South-East, 2009, Archaeological investigations at Grain - Shorne pipeline, Isle of Grain, Kent: Phase 7 Post-excavation assessment and project design for publication [DRAFT] (Unpublished document). SKE15791.

<2> Archaeology South-East, 2012, Archaeological Investigations along the Isle of Grain – Shorne Pipeline Route, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Publication Report (Unpublished document). SKE18113.