Kent Science Park, Sittingbourne, Kent - Post-excavation Assessment

Wessex Archaeology

Eight ditches, four pits and two quarry pits were recorded during the excavation, with a further six pits and a posthole identified during a trial trench evaluation in 2021. Four of the pits, all of which were small and shallow, are attributable to the later Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. Two pairs of shallow, truncated ditches probably formed the remains of trackways, at least one of which was potentially broadly contemporary with the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pits. Other ditches can be correlated with agricultural land divisions marked on late 19th- and 20th-century OS maps, whilst the remainder of the features are of uncertain date and function.

A small, limited assemblage of finds was recovered, the most notable elements of which are a small collection of Late Bronze/Early Iron Age pottery, retrieved mainly from pits, and a backed flint blade of probable Late Glacial/Early Mesolithic date that was found residually during the trial trenching.