Three small scale excavations close together produced contrasting findings. One in the garden of the Bull Inn (TP8) produced mainly 18th-19th century pottery, glass and clay pipes, typical of a public house rubbish dump. A cat burial in a toffee tin was also found. The other two pits TP1 and TP9 , however, produced pottery ranging in age from Roman to mid Saxon to medieval; a large piece of Mayen lava quern stone; a Roman coin; a fragment of Roman glass. TP1 at a depth of around 60 cm showed what was possibly a beaten earth floor with a small posthole but the excavation was too small to explore this further. The findings do however show occupation from the Roman period onwards with great potential for further investigation. TP9 also contained a cat burial.

<1> Faversham Society Archaeological Research Group, 2009, Report on mid-Saxon occupational finds, Beckett St, Faversham, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16096.