From the report: "The removal of the modern soil horizon exposed a landscape of heavily truncated pits, post holes and ditch segments, including linear segment alignments running northwest-southeast containing both Iron Age and mid Roman pottery. Although the majority of the archaeological features lacked enough evidence to imply usage of the pits and post holes, especially due to their random placement and the truncation of those features, the existence of the ditch cuts containing dating material from c. 900BC -250AD is positive evidence of at least a partial field system. Although only one sherd of Medieval pottery was retrieved from the site, the fact that it came from a sealed context within a linear segment which cut a mid Roman ditch offers the possibility of continued use of the field system into the 13th century." (1)

<1> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2012, Archaeological excavation of land adjacent to the Water Tower, Herne Bay, CT6 6BQ (Unpublished document). SKE31808.