In 2008 Canterbury Archaeological Trust carried out a watching brief and excavation. The earliest features found were four Beaker burials. These do not appear to have been within a barrow. One of the burials was accompanied by a beaker with a cremation within it. In the Early Bronze Age a ring ditch was dug on the western part of the site. There was no central burial found but a possible off-centre burial was found. (1)

The ring ditch is one of four identified as cropmarks in the area (TQ 86 SE 30).

<1> Weekes, J., 2012, Canterbury Archaeological Trust Interim Reports, Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 299-300 (Article in serial). SKE25119.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2015, The Meads, Sittingbourne, Kent, 2012 excavation, Archaeological assessment report (Unpublished document). SKE53675.