Monument record TR 36 NE 2686 - Possible Neolithic segmented ring ditch found on site of new Tesco store south of Manston Road, Ramsgate

The remains of a possible segmented ring-ditch which may have been of Neolithic or Bronze Age date were revealed during a full excavation of a development site for a new Tesco store on Manston Road in Ramsgate. This feature comprised two curvilinear, U-shaped gullies, each c. 6.0 m long and separated by a gap of about 1.50 m. No clear evidence for a third gully was identified to the north-east which would have. completed a circular arrangement c. 7.0 m in diameter. The excavated lengths were up to 0.30 m wide, 0.20 m deep and were filled with redeposited brickearth with occasional charcoal flecking and small flints; no finds were recovered. These features were very indistinct and difficult to excavate, and considerable doubt remains as to their interpretation; it is possible that they were natural features. A few sherds of grog-tempered pottery could be of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date, but all were residual in later contexts, as was a single sherd of either Beaker or Collared Urn.(1)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2009, A Late Bronze Age, Anglo-Saxon, And Medieval Settlement Site At Manston Road, Ramsgate in "Kentish Sites And Sites Of Kent A Miscellany of Of Four Archaeological Excavations." (Article in monograph). SKE16055.