A "broad shallow hollow (F. 4), apparently man-made but seemingly of no great significance and probably post-Dissolution in date".

"At the south-eastern end of the trench a broad, flint-filled hollow (Section 2, F. 4; Plate II) was
discovered cut into the top of the natural clay. A hand-dug slot some 0.40m wide, cut across the feature
showed that it was just 0.18m deep with long, shallowly sloping sides and a slightly dished base. The
filling of this feature (Context 3) consisted of a brown clay loam containing very frequent large and
medium sized flint nodules, a small quantity of tile fragments, mostly towards the base, and portions of
two early post-medieval red bricks.

The finds suggest that this feature was filled sometime during the early post-medieval period. Most of
the flints within the filling appeared to be natural nodules with no evidence of knapping or adhering
mortar to suggest that they were derived from demolished walling. The exact origin and purpose of F. 4
remains unclear but it does appear to be a deliberately infilled, man-made feature rather than a natural
hollow." (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust LTD, 2015, St Radigund’s Abbey Farm, Hougham, nr Dover, 2015: Evaluation report (Unpublished document). SKE31725.