and part of a Pre-Roman roundhouse. This was published in the journal of the Kent Archaeological Society in 2010. At a recent housing development site at Hazelpits in Ulcombe Road archaeological work recorded further Bronze Age and Iron Age material including ditches, metal working and a burial, ref:(Canterbury Archaeological Trust 2018 report). An extensive series of Iron Age, Romano-British and Medieval sites have also been recorded by fieldwork directed by Neil Aldridge and the Kent Archaeological Society some one and a quarter miles north of these finds in the parish of Ulcombe. These include iron-working hearths, burials, a sill beam Roman building dating to the 2nd century AD, with an earlier sunken-floored 'Grubenhaus' type structure underlying it, and an early Medieval site, ref:(Kent County Council Heritage database). The earliest written records are references in charters of King Wihtred and King Offa to Wick Farm, 724 AD and Little Southernden, 785 AD. A probable Roman road passes close to Southernden linking Sutton Valence, Ashford, and Lympne; this was recorded by Neil Aldridge and the Kent Archaeological Society and later published in Archaeologia Cantiana in 2006. This road was probably used like many in the Weald to link the Roman iron working sites to ports and towns. Headcorn may have originated as a "denn" or clearing, to which pigs were driven to feed on acorns in the Wealden Forest from manorial properties located in north-eastern Kent, such as Ospringe at Faversham. The network of lanes which run in a pattern North-East-South-West are the drove routes linking to the dens. This is particularly obvious when travelling from Headcorn towards say Paddock Wood when one is going 'against the grain' of the early road system. The only roads which have a different alignment are the Staplehurst-Cranbrook road which is partly Roman and the Sutton Valence-Biddenden main road which dates from 1815. 11th–18th centuries Although Headcorn does not appear in the Domesday Book of 1086, the Domesday Monachorum (the ecclesiastical survey made at about the same time), records the existence of a church at Hedekaruna. According to the Oxford Names Companion, the name could possibly mean 'tree-trunk (used as a footbridge) of a man called Hydeca'. An important river crossing was at Stephens Bridge on the Frittenden Road where a Medieval bridge can be seen today. A second bridge, Pell Bridge, is situated south of the church which stands on a packhorse trackway to Frittenden