(TR 14325609. Sited from plan auth 2). TR 143561. Between April 1977 and 1979 a small volunteer team led by Mr P Bennett and Mr W McLaughlin maintained a watching brief during topsoil stripping and cutting for the Canterbury By-pass. A large number of Iron Age, Belgic, Roman and post-medieval pits and ditches, together with traces of possible timber buildings, two possible iron-working furnaces and a Roman pottery kiln were excavated. A large collection of Iron Age and Roman pottery was recovered from the pits and ditches. A celtic bronze coin of an unrecorded type was also discovered and dated to the early 1st century AD. The Roman kiln, the best preserved feature on the site, contained a mass of semi-fired pots. The kiln may well have been mis-fired and abandoned by the potter, complete with its contents. (1-4)

<1> Arch Cant 95 1979 272-73 (OS Card Reference). SKE36214.

<2> Arch Cant 96 1980 267-289 plan (P Bennett N Macpherson-Grant) (OS Card Reference). SKE36242.

<3> Arch Cant 98 1982 241 (D Nash) (OS Card Reference). SKE36317.

<4> Britannia II 1980 401 (F Grew) (OS Card Reference). SKE38387.