Kent Archaeology Projects undertook an evaluation of two trenches at 149 Sea Road, Westgate-on-Sea, Isle of Thanet between 17th and 18th March 2014. In Trench 2 was observed a ditch or gully that continued into the unexcavated area.
The ditch was cut to a maximum depth of 0.48m (in the southern section of the trench) into natural mixed brickearth and chalk, and to a depth of 0.32m in another section (to the north). This apparently linear feature had relatively steeply sloping sides, an irregular base and varied in width from 1.32m to 0.85m suggesting that it was generally irregular in shape, with the reduction in depth and width from south to north perhaps suggesting that it may have been discontinuous, terminating a short distance to the north. The ditch fill was an orangey brown clayey silt with quantities of small, medium and large sized flints, in markedly larger deposits than occurring naturally in the surrounding area. The absence of any associated cultural materials and the limited size of exposure of the feature meant that no definitive conclusion could be drawn about the feature’s date and function. However the depth of the overlying colluvial accumulation, along withthe feature’s irregularity in depth, width and general shape, suggested that it was prehistoric, probably Neolithic or Bronze Age, and that it was not a drainage ditch.

No further archaeology was observed.(1)

<1> Kent Archaeological Projects, 2014, An archaeological evaluation at 149 Sea Road, Westgate-on Sea, Isle of Thanet, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE30557.