On top of a surface interpreted as being the historic bank of the Dour estuary, was a prehistoric occupation layer of uncertain date continuing into a peaty layer at the base of the slope. Numerous pieces of worked flint were located within this layer including a horseshoe scraper made on a struck flake of a black flint and a grey flake side scraper with a prominent bulb of percussion. There was no clear diagnostic features about this collection. There is some iron staining, but patina does not vary so much as to indicated a mixture of industries. One of the scrapers could be Mesolithic but would be more at home in a Neolithic context, or even later. There is not sufficient evidence of scale flaking, however, to indicate a post Neolithic date. (1)

<1> Philip A. Rahtz, 1958, Archaeologia Cantiana, Dover: Stembrook and St. Martin Le Grand. Vol. 72 (Article in serial). SKE31641.