TR 11304220. Patches of dark soil with coarse black and red potsherds were reported by Hammon (1a) on the top of a chalk spur running south-east from the road between Brabourne and Stowting Common. A trench was cut through the largest of these areas and a pit revealed containing a miscellany of pottery of Early Iron Age types, including an almost complete urn in the bottom layer. On enlargement of the excavated area a deep pit was found, elliptical in shape and partially floored with flints from the layer immediately beneath the turf. The northern and western sides had been surrounded by a bank of soil and flints which had collapsed. A trench 1m east of the site cut through a shallower pit containing large numbers of Romano British coarse ware sherds. (1) (Early Iron Age pottery has also been found nearby - see TR 14 SW 4)

<1> Inf J Hammon St Quentin's Stowting (OS Card Reference). SKE44322.

<2> Arch Cant 88 1973 218 (J Bradshaw) (OS Card Reference). SKE35944.