Monument record MKE115987 - Ozengell, Lord of the Manor #6

The site was excavated by the Thanet Archaeological Unit from 1976 to 1982 and also sample trenched during the 1980s.The ring-ditched enclosures marked as LOM 1-6 are part of a possibly middle, certainly late neolithic to early Bronze Age ceremonial landscape in use between c. 2800-1700 BC. Of these LOM1, 2D, 3A and 2 smaller ring-ditches were entirely stripped and excavated in 1976 and 1977, LOM 5 [this site] sample trenched during the 1980s and LOM 6 remains unexcavated as a Scheduled Monument.(4)During the early 1980ıs part of the enclosure at LOM 5 (Fig. 2) was excavated. This enclosure was considered to be broadly similar to those recorded at LOM 1, 2d and 3, accordingly the enclosure was interpreted as a Neolithic Henge monument. A burial pit at the centre of the enclosure contained selected and carefully arranged bones of five skeletons which suggest the later addition of late Neolithic/early Bronze Age inhumations. Following the discovery of Anglo-Saxon burials at LOM 5 the edge of the excavation was extended south-east to the railway line and south-west towards Haine Road.A ring ditch (CgMs 6, Fig. 2), partly removed by the railway cutting, was identified to the south of LOM 5. This feature, interpreted as a Neolithic barrow pond, comprised a shallow saucer-shaped pit cut into the chalk bedrock which was encircled by a raised bank of chalk and a ring ditch.(5) <1>

<1> Garrow, D and Cooper, A, 22/11/2021, Grave Goods Project dataset, 73004 (Machine readable data file). SKE54611.