A series of eight small pits were dug at ten metre intervals on an east-west line down the eastern side of the middle Westbrook valley, opposite the Parish Church. The excavation was part of a research project being carried out in the Ospringe area by the Faversham Society Archaeological Research Group into prehistoric and early medieval human activity. The uppermost pit reached the underlying chalk in fifteen centimetres; the lower down pits (on the site of Brook Cottages demolished in the 1950s) reached a maximum depth of 1.4 metres without reaching the chalk. All pits yielded flint implements, waste flakes and pot boilers. The dateable flint implements ranged in age from Mesolithic to Bronze Age. (1)

<1> Faversham Society Archaeological Research Group, 2012, Understanding Ospringe Project 2008-9 and 2011 (Unpublished document). SKE17255.