In 2000 the Trust for Thanet Archaeology carried out an evaluation at Hartsdown Road. A layer of metalling consisting of flint pebbles associated with Belgic and Roman pottery was found. It is likely to be a trackway. (1)

The site has been partially excavated by The Trust of Thanet Archaeology: Evaluation work carried out in 1995 at Hartsdown Community Woodland Scheme, Margate. This dated the trackway to the Roman period.This is clearly identifiable as a length of Roman metalled trackway. It consists of a layer of metalling composed of small water-worn flint cob bles about 4 m. wide and 0.20 m. deep where best preserved, this laid in a shallow chalk-cut slot. This is flanked on both sides by parallel chalk-cut ditches about 4 m. wide and 1 m. deep. (1)

The cropmark remains of a short stretch of double-ditched trackway running parallel to the Hartsdown Road is visible on aerial photographs: CUCAP BTG83 26-JUN-1975. About 100m of the trackway is visible aligned NW-SE with the ditches set 7m apart, widening to 14m apart towards the SE end of this section. The NW end disappears beneath housing. This trackway has been mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024. (2)

Historic England archive material: 1082789 Margate, Kent/ink AP transcriptio 1082806 Margate, Kent/report AF1065836 RCHME: Margate Project Photographic transcription of the site was undertaken between October and December 1996 by RCHME Aerial Survey staff, Swindon, as part of the Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic project.Contents : Report, AP transcription, 2 computer plots, 3 record forms, miscellaneous research materialCondition : INTACT RCH01/113 Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic Period In August 1994 staff from the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England began a 3 year national project recording sites and monuments connected to industry and enclosure of the Neolithic period. 51 sites, where flint mining occurred and 113 enclosures were recorded for the project, resulting in two separate publications.

<1> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 2000, An Archaeological Evaluation of a Building Plot at Hartsdown Road, Margate (Unpublished document). SKE17412.

<2> Historic England Archive, 1949-1976, Historic England Archive CUCAP oblique aerial photographs, CUCAP BTG83 26-JUN-197 (Archive). SKE57107.