An archaeological trial-trenched evaluation at Kingswode Hoe School, before the proposed construction of an extension to the north-east of the main school building, defined the east part of a Bronze Age or Early Iron Age pit (7), extending westwards outside of the trench. The fill contained pottery dated to the first half of the 1st century AD.

Pit 7 was located towards the south-eastern end of the trench, cutting the natural gravel, with its southern half extending beyond the trench’s south-western edge, 0.98m (min) x 0.66m (min) in size x 0.48m deep, with steep, near vertical sides and flattish base. The southeast edge was cut away by a modern water pipe trench (5). It was also heavily truncated by modern pit 3, with a surviving depth of 0.6m at its northwest edge, but only around 0.4m to the south-east. Its only fill (8) comprised silty sand and contained one sherd of undiagnostic prehistoric pottery, tentatively dated to the Bronze Age or Early Iron Age.<1>