Little Stock Farm, ARC LSF 98

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Union Railways (South) Limited to carry out an archaeological evaluation of a site at Little Stock Farm, alongside the Ashford to Folkestone railway, near the village of Mersham (centred on URL grid point 86400 18625; NGR grid point TR 06400 38625). The site is known as Little Stock Farm. An Environmental Assessment (URL 1994), geophysical survey (URL 1995) and fieldwalking (URL 1995) had identified the potential for archaeological remains within the evaluation area. The potential appeared to focus on a diffuse scatter of worked and burnt flint, including an Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead, within the eastern portion of the evaluation area. The geophysical survey noted zones of increased response towards the western end of the evaluation area and within the coombe crossing the central portion of the site.