At the front of the rampart darker patches within the chalk rampart have proven to be animal burrows, as skeletons of badger and rabbit have been found within them. We hope that this burrowing will not have destroyed the evidence that might tell us how the rampart was constructed.

Further up the slope we have been clearing around the sides of the large Roman quarry to look for signs of postholes or other features that might indicate whether this quarry was in fact a cellar. A local hydrologist (a water expert) has told us that due to harder seams within the chalk, holes like this could have held water for parts of the year - in other words this could have been a pond. We will now be examining the soils in the bottom to see if any of these could have been laid down under water.