An Anglo Saxon sunken featured building (SFB) was recorded in the southern half of Area 1. It was sub rectangular in plan and measured 3.5m long by 2.8m wide and 0.25m deep. There were four post holes around the edges in the middle of each side, the holes were roughly circular and steep, almost vertical sides and varied in size and depth. The largest post hole measured 0.6m in diameter and 0.75m deep, the smallest measured 0.15m in diameter with a depth of 0.38m the fills contained charcoal flecks, very small fragments of fired clay, animal bone fragments and shell. Two small sherds of Romano British pottery were retrieved from the lower fill of one post hole. One post hole appeared to be re used, with a slot being dug to facilitate the insertion of a fresh post. The presence of four post holes is somewhat unusual as most examples on Thanet have two The SFB had a single fill that contained charcoal, fired clay, animal bone, daub, shell and pottery as well as four iron objects, two nails a small knife and a hooked object, possibly a latch lifter, pieces of bone comb a fragment of glass and fragments of an annular loom weight. Environmental samples from the fill of the SFB contained fragments of free threshing wheat which is consistent with Anglo Saxon SFBs found elsewhere on Thanet. Analysis of the animal bone and shellfish assemblages shows that deliberate backfill of the SFB contained food waste. This does not necessarily mean that the building was used for domestic purposes. This is currently an isolated feature, with no evidence for structures which can be convincingly interpreted as dwellings. The function of the SFB cannot be reliably identified, nor indeed the scale of any associated settlement. (1) (information summarised from source)

<1> Martin, J., Schuster, J. and Barclay, A.J., 2012, Evidence of an Early Bronze Age field system and spelt wheat growing together with an Anglo-Saxon sunken featured building, at Monkton Road, Minster in Thanet, Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 43-52 (Article in serial). SKE25113.