Bronze Age discoveries at Cheeseman's Green development site

Archaeologists have uncovered artefacts dating back 12,000 years during excavation work at the proposed development site at Cheeseman’s Green.

A fascinating picture is emerging about how Ashford’s agricultural landscape looked from the late Bronze Age through to the early years of Roman occupation.

A Bronze Age pottery vessel found at Cheesemans Green, Ashford

Some interesting and unusual finds have been unearthed in the excavations at Cheeseman’s Green, a site given planning permission by Ashford Borough Council for up to 1,180 new homes, where the first phase has just started.

Crest Strategic Projects commissioned the large-scale archaeological investigations at Cheeseman’s Green.

The search has been managed by consultants CgMs, together with Kent County Council Heritage and Wessex Archaeology.

It began in June and has revealed human activity on the site stretching back 12,000 years, including the flint tools of ancient hunter gatherer communities, and Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age activity sites, settlements and farmsteads [...] kentonline.co.uk/