During excavation carried out off Manston Road ahead of the redevelopment of the site in 2007/8, a small assemblage of Mesolithic flintwork was found as residual finds in later features. The finds included bladelets, some flakes and blades, and perhaps one or two cores and the core rejuvenation piece. A tanged point and at least one Mesolithic scraper were also Identified. The microburin and
broken bladelets suggests that microliths were perhaps being produced here. The suggestion of microlith production is interesting in that evidence for the production and use of microliths on Mesolithic sites in East Kent is almost non-existent. The presence of a possible tranchet-adze re-sharpening flake suggests that tranchet adzes were being used here. The quantity of Mesolithic material found would indicate that there had been some activity in the vicinity of the site, although as this seems to be quite widely scattered in residual contexts with no apparent concentration, and as there is no bias towards a particular tool type, it is difficult to define exactly what this activity represents. (information summarised from source) (1-2)

<1> Archaeology South-East, 2009, Archaeological Investigations at the Former Allotments Site, Manston Road, Ramsgate, Kent: Post-excavation Assessment and Project Design for Publication (Unpublished document). SKE17961.

<2> Archaeology South-East, 2011, Archaeological Investigations at the former Allotments Site, Manston Road, Ramsgate, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE18206.