After it was revealed that deep ploughing was becoming a threat to the site, further excavation took place under the finance of the Ministry of Public Building and Works between 1959 and 1967, directed by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes.

[1] Elevated at 30 metres OD, the cemetery is situated atop a visually prominent knoll of chalk downland which offers panoramic views to the north, and which can be seen from a distance.

No evidence for a royal or particularly high status burial has been discovered from the cemetery, so it has been suggested that the estate around Finglesham might have been owned by a Kentish prince even though he was buried elsewhere, probably at Eastry.

[6] Later Anglo-Saxon accounts attribute this change to the widescale invasion of Germanic language tribes from northern Europe, namely the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.

[16] Whiting had been informed by local farmer Percy Steed that a number of human bones had been found near to a chalk pit adjacent to one of his fields.

[16] Organising an investigation, Reginald Smith of the British Museum visited to confirm the date of the bones, after which the Council of the Kent Archaeological Society offered £5 towards the financing of a rescue excavation.

[16] Raising a total of £70 in ten days, Stebbing and Whiting hired several labourers to carry out an excavation of the area closest to the chalk hole, being assisted in this by another local archaeologist, Cecil Knox.

[16] In June 1963, Gerald Dunning, then Inspector of Ancient Monuments for the Ministry of Public Building and Works, had the artefacts moved to a more local display in the gatehouse of Deal Castle.

[17] In 1956, young archaeologist Sonia Hawkes took an interest in the material from Finglesham, and was involved in a project to conserve the known artefacts through the Ancient Monuments Laboratory.

[20] Undertaking post-excavation work on the material uncovered, between 1980 and 1987 Hawkes received funding from English Heritage as part of their Backlogue Programme for excavations undertaken before 1972.

[19] While continuing to assemble the excavation report, Hawkes authored and published 11 articles on different aspects of Finglesham in such outlets as Medieval Archaeology and Antiquity journals.

[19] English Heritage agreed to finance the editorial work to get the original data written up and published, but had insufficient funds to pay for the publication of a wider analysis.

[19] The excavation report was finally published in 2007, with archaeologist Birte Brugmann noting that it would make the material more accessible and "considerably improve" the Kentish cemetery sample.