During 1981 and 1982 an area of the East ditch was dug. Radiocarbon dates from material from the lower levels of the ditch indicated a date of 2900BC.
Mesolithic remains were also found.
‘E T Leeds investigated Neolithic, Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon sites near the cursus on the second terrace, and the Abingdon Society has excavated a Neolithic henge and bronze age remains to the north of the Cursus.‘
from ‘Excavations on the Cursus at Drayton, Oxon‘
R Ainslie & J Wallis, Oxoniensia LII