Monument record TR 06 SW 258 - Test Pit excavated in the garden of the Almshouses, South Road, Faversham as part of the 'Hunt the Saxons' project

A one by one metre Test Pit was dug in the garden just to the north of the main Almshouse block. It was excavated in 30 cm spits to a depth of 0.8 metres, at which point the undisturbed nature of the brickearth deposit indicated that the natural deposits had been reached. Four blade type worked flints were found at depths of between 30 and 70 cm in the brickearth layer. Small amounts of stressed flint, struck flakes and rough core nodule fragments were also found in association. The form of the blades suggests Mesolithic or Neolithic activity at this spot (1).

<1> Faversham Society Archaeological Research Group, 2009, Report on the discovery of possible mesolithic activity near the Almshouses, Faversham, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE15847.