A late 1st to 2nd century Roman occupation site, possibly industrial, was discovered in 1971 during the laying of a gas pipe-line close to the A.253 road and opposite Manston airfield (TR 3365). It consisted of one ditch and seven large hollows. The ditch was narrow and only 15 inches deep with a slot cut in the bottom, suggesting a fence bedding-trench, and ran between the two westernmost hollows and contained a scatter of pottery and bone. The shallow depressions, average depth 3-4 feet, were almost entirely filled with fine loose ash in massive quantities, together with large sherds, bone some of it worked, nails, knife-blades and pieces of slag. The largest was 24 feet long and the others averaged a little less. (1)

<1> KAR 30 1972-3 299 (N Macpherson-Grant) (OS Card Reference). SKE45293.