In 2001 Canterbury Archaeological Trust carried out an excavation on Shelford Farm Estate. The earliest archaeological evidence found consisted of residual worked flints from later features. The earliest of these was a fragment of a Mesolithic tranchet axe sharpening flake. There was a greater volume of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flint implements and flakes. (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2003, Shelford Farm Estate, Broadoak, Canterbury, Kent: Archaeological excavation on the site of the Western Attenuation Pond - Stratigraphic Report (Unpublished document). SKE17625.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2002, Shelford Farm Estate, Archaeological excavation on the site of the Western Attenuation Pond, Stratigraphic Report (Unpublished document). SKE57609.