Iron age Kingston

While the recorded history of our village goes back to Saxon times, there appear to have been people living and farming here many hundreds of years earlier. KLHS Webmaster has recently looked at the archaeological report produced in 2017 following excavations by AC Archaeology Ltd. in the fields on the north east edge of the village known as Vicarage Park – a green space often used by dog walkers. Amongst other intriguing discoveries, trenches revealed a boundary ditch, a post hole and a pottery fragment that pointed to a settlement from the mid to late Iron age (approximately 300 BC to 43 AD). The full report is available as a pdf here on the South Hams District Council website