As part of a programme of archaeological investigations along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways Limited (URL) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to undertake an evaluation of eight trial trenches situated south of Beechbrook Wood. The site was 3.5km to the north-west of the centre of Ashford, Kent and was bounded by the A20 immediately to the south, Beechbrook Wood to the North and farmland to the east and west.