TR 3275 7050 Bronze Age, Iron Age and Romano-British features and finds. E-LBA ditched enclosure with Deverel Rimbury type sherds and a bronze palstave hoard in bark container;
While one inshore feature contains sherds of Belgic/Romano-British pottery, (TR 37 SW 1018), overall pottery scatter from the site can be dated to c600 BC. A bronze hoard of 10 palstave axes exhibit styles current c1200 BC-1300 BC. (3). At least one late Neolithic/Bronze Age flint scraper has also been found. (TR 37 SW 1000) See illustration card. (1). Site being monitored by Thanet Soc/Trust and is in process of destruction by natural and human agency, despite SSSI status. Stream bed is full of timber and structural remains and man-made features, with earliest furthest from shore. Earlier and later remains recorded as separate monuments. For site in context with others in inter-tidal zone see (3). Additional reference which talks about the finds from the site (4).

<1> Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 rec no 301 (OS Card Reference). SKE44659.

<2> David Perkins/Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 2000, Thanet and Wantsum coastal sites, 2000 (Unpublished document). SWX9343.

<3> Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, 1994, Inter-tidal archaeology in Kent (Unpublished document). SWX9353.

<4> Perkins, D., 1988, A Middle Bronze Age hoard from St Mildred's Bay, 1988 (Article in serial). SWX9344.