Excavations undertaken around the White Horse Stone site in the Medway Valley between Oct 1998-Mar 1999 by Oxford Archaeology. The site consisted of three areas along the CTRL line; from west to east: the ‘White Horse Stone site’, the ‘Pilgrim’s Way site’, and the ‘West of Boarley Farm site’.

A settlement in the north of the White Horse Stone site was occupied from the early to middle Iron Age. This settlement consists of a central complex of intercutting pits surrounded by numerous structures, mostly four-posted, and one with a penannular ditch. Pits also surrounded the site; those on the western side contained human remains (cremated and isolated disarticulated bones), pottery and animal bone; the pits in the south contained human remains, charred grain, and a set of metal tools, deposited in pots; the pits in the east contained large quantities of iron slag (though very few iron artefacts were found on the site). Some fired clay, though a noticeable lack of loomweights. Quernstones were also noticabely rare. (1)

Additional bibliography. (2-3)

<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, The Prehistoric Landscape at White Horse Stone, Aylesford, Kent: CTRL Integrated Site Report Series (Unpublished document). SKE16368.

<2> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, Radiocarbon dates from Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16490.

<3> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2005, The Late Prehistoric Pottery from Excavations Along Section 1 of the CTRL (Unpublished document). SKE16555.