A Late Bronze Age site on Mill Hill was excavated by W.P.D Stebbing during 1928 & 34. The site, which was situated on the seaward slope between the Waterworks and Cowdray Square, comprised a nearly circular V-sectioned ditch, about 6 feet deep, 10 feet wide at the top and 170 feet in overall diameter. In the SE side was a 15 feet wide causewayed entrance with three post holes on each side. In the trench filling and at different levels were hearths with fragments of pots of Late Bronze Age type, pot boilers, animal bones, fragments of querns and evidence of huts in the form of fragments of daub. The bulk of the finds made by Stebbing was presented to the BM in 1939 (Accession nos 1939, 10-3). The pottery is of four main classes: jars of coarse dark ware, and plain open bowls, plain globular handled vessels and small shouldered bowls with everted rims of good dark ware. Notes and drawings of the excavation were sent by Stebbing to Hawkes in 1939. The site was at that time described as an early Iron Agefortified enclosure but Hawkes in a letter to Stebbing wrote, "the whole character of the material is really unmistakably Late Bronze Age". The site is now occupied by a council estate. A quern stone from the site was built into the front elevation of 1 Quern Road in the mid 1930's. It is believed to be still insitu (TR 35 SE 104).