"EVENT_NAME","EVENT_CODE","EVENT_TYPE","CONTRACTOR","DATE","GRID (NGR)","PROJECT","COUNTY","DISTRICT","PARISH","SMR","SITE_TYPE","PERIOD:","METHOD:","PHASING:","ENVIRO:","FINDS:","GEOLOGY:","CONTEXT_NUM:","THREAT:","SAMPLE:","SUMMARY:","ARCHIVE:","ACC_NUM:" "North of Westenhanger Castle","ARC WGC 98","Excavation","Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd","29/3/99-26/4/99","375000 122000","","Kent","Shepway","Stanford","","Ditched enclosure","EBA, EM","Top soil stripped by machine. Most pits 50% excavated by hand, all ditches approximately 20% excavation by hand (trowel, shovel and mattock).","The vast majority, over 95%, of all datable material retrieved from the archaeological remains, belongs to the Medieval period and can be placed in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteeth centuires. Preliminary dates for the features have been derived from ","The environmental remains retrieved from the excavated features consisted chiefly of charred cereal grains and other seeds. These were most abundant in the five samples taken from the rubbish pit, provisionally interpreted as a corn-drying oven, and in ","The quantity of artefactual remains recovered from the excavation has been very low, and the condidtion of the finds medium to poor. Of the 182 pottery sherds recovered, 2 are of Prehistoric flint-tempered fabric (probably Iron Age), 5 are Roman, 172 ar","The underlying geology of the site comprises Pleistocene Head Brickearth (British Geological Survey Sheet 305/6). A linear band of alluvium is also noted within the area, aligned north-east to south-west. The Head Brickearth and alluvium form the drif","198","Development. Construction of, and works associated with, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.","2250.00%","The majority of the excavated features appear to be of Norman date (AD1050-1225). The excavation revealed a series of large ditches, which appeared to form a rectangular enclosure. At least one of the ditches had been recut and had large post-holes/pi","Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 92a Broad Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2LU. ","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""