Front matter, Volume 125
Archæologia Cantiana
Images of Kent No. 3. ‘The Road from Blackheath to Lewisham’ (from the KAS Library Collections)
Archæologia Cantiana
Being Contributions to the History and Archaeology of Kent
VOLUME CXXV
2005
Published by the
KENT ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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CONTENTS
List of Officers and members of Council vii-viii; Editorial Personnel viii
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1. Selling: a Case Study in Institutional Relief under the Old Poor Law, 1750-1835. By John Wilsher . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. Archaeological Investigations at Canterbury Police Station. By Mick Diack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. The Dens of Benenden.
By Ernest Pollard and Hazel Strouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. Later Prehistoric Settlement on the Hoo Peninsula: excavations at Kingsmead Park, Allhallows.
By Christopher Greatorex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. The Chantry College of Cobham. By James M. Gibson . .
6. The Development of Medieval Tonbridge reviewed in the light of recent excavations at Lyons, East Street.
By Eliott Wragg, Chris Jarrett and Jeremy Haslam . . .
7. The ‘Men of Kent’ and the Penenden Heath Meeting, 1828. By Kathryn Beresford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8. A Belgic Cremation Cemetery and Iron Bloomery Furnace at Jubilee Corner, Ulcombe. By Neil Aldridge . . . . . . .
9. Charing Clocks, Clockmakers and Clockkeepers.
By Chris H.K. Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10. The Roman Villa at Minster in Thanet. Part 2: Iron-Age, Roman and post-Roman Coinage.
By David Holman and Keith Parfitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11. King Alfred’s naval engagement with the Danes, 885: which River Stour? By Christine Grainge . . . . . . . . . .
12. A Roman enclosure system in the Little Stour valley at Ickham. By Christopher Sparey-Green . . . . . . . . . . . .
13. Interim Reports on Recent Work carried out by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14. Old St Albans Court, Nonington. By Peter Hobbs . . . . .
15. Twelfth- and early Thirteenth-Century Charters containing pledges naming Thomas Becket. By Mary Berg . . . . .
16. The Mead Way, the Street and Doddinghyrnan in Rochester Revisited. By Alan Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17. Sir Edward Dering of Surrenden Dering and his ‘Booke of Expences’, 1617-1628. By Laetitia Yeandle . . . . . . . . .
18. A Roman Cremation Cemetery at Walmer.
By Richard Hoskins, David Holman and Keith Parfitt. .
19. A list of the Holders of Land in Kent c.1120.
By Colin Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
20 Researches and Discoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Holocene Archaeology at Wansunt Pit, Bexley . . . . . . .
Rare Early Iron-Age Brooch: Ringlemere Farm, Woodnesborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Folkstone Potin Hoard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Welsh Seri ‘Causeway’ and Sarre, Thanet . . . . . . . . . .
A List of the Inhabitants of West Malling, Dec. 1649 . .
An Eighteenth-Century Chalk Cave at Manston . . . . . .
21. Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jeremy Black, An Historical Atlas of Kent . . . . . . . . . .
Peter Brandon, An Historical Atlas of Kent . . . . . . . . .
David Killingray, Chelsfield Chronicles 1450-1920: Annals of a Kentish Parish and Along the River Cray: a pictorial history of the Cray Valley . . . . . . .
Margaret Sparks, The Role of the Hospital in Medieval England: gift-giving and the spiritual ecomomy . . .
Sheila Sweetinburgh, Medieval Sandwich . . . . . . . . . .
Peter Tann, The History of Throwley Church, Kent . . .
Matthew Reynolds, Sevenoaks People and Faith: Two Thousand Years of Religious Belief and Practice . . .
J.A. Conner, Copperas. An account of the Whitstable Works and the first industrial-scale chemical prod-uction in England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Frank Panton, The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe and The Dover Bronze Age Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Elizabeth Edwards, For All the Saints. St Michael’s Church East Peckham, Parish and People and The Millennium Book on All Saint’s Church Foots Cray, Kent . . . . . . .
Ulcombe’s Story. A Millennium History of Our Village
Hythe, A History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dangerous Coastline 1939-1945. A wartime childhood in Birchington, Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Becket’s Murderers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kent Probate Records. A Catalogue and Practical Guide
The Story of Wye Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Notes on the 814 ad Bexley Charter. Extracts from the lecture notes of David Viceroy-Weekes . . . . . . . . . . .
22. Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
23. Notes on the Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
24. Annual Report and Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
25. List of New Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
26. Committees of the Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27. Notes for Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
28. General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
officers and members of the council, 1st january 2005
President
P. E. OLDHAM, m.a.
Patrons
THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BRABOURNE, c.b.e.
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD NORTHBOURNE
THE VISCOUNT DE L’ISLE, m.b.e.
F. HULL, b.a., ph.d., d.litt., f.r.hist.s.
R.H. HISCOCK, ll.b, f.s.a.
J. THIRSK, c.b.e., m.a., ph.d., d.litt., f.b.a.
P. ASHBEE, m.a., d.litt., f.s.a.
P. H. G. DRAPER, b.sc., ph.d., d.i.c., f.r.s.c., m.inst.p., c.phys.
Vice-Presidents
C. W. CHALKLIN, m.a., b.litt., litt.d., f.r.hist.s.
L. D. LYLE, m.a.
MISS E. MELLING, b.a.
J. WHYMAN, b.sc.(econ.), ph.d., m.c.i.p.d.
Honorary Editor
T. G. LAWSON, m.a.(cantab), dip.kent hist.
102 Lower Vicarage Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9AP
Honorary General Secretary
A. I. MOFFAT
Three Elms, Woodlands Lane, Shorne, Gravesend, DA12 3HH
Honorary Treasurer
R. G. THOMAS, m.a., f.c.a.
1 Abchurch Yard, Abchurch Lane, London, EC4N 7BA
Honorary Librarian
F. H. PANTON, c.b.e., ph.d.
Grove End, Tunstall, Sittingbourne, ME9 8DY
Honorary Membership Secretary
MRS. S. BROOMFIELD
8 Woodview Crescent, Hildenborough, Tonbridge, TN11 9HD
Honorary Excursions Secretary
MRS. J. M. SAYNOR, m.a.
Friars, 28 High Street, Shoreham, Sevenoaks, TN14 7TD
Honorary Curator
M. C. W. STILL, ph.d.
4 Winifred Road, Dartford, DA1 3BL
Elected Members of the Council
D. G. Anstey Snodland
D. Bacchus Rochester
Ms E. Boast Broadstairs
D. A. H. Cleggett, b.a. Maidstone
E. P. Connell New Ash Green
P.A. Harlow Rochester
R. C. Higgs Weald
Mrs M.T. Lawrence East Peckham
R. F. LeGear, m.a.a.i.s., a.i.f.a. Ashford
A. Miles Biddenden
K. Parfitt, b.a. Dover
C. R. Pout, b.a, m.a. Canterbury
R. J. Spain, c.eng., m.i.mech.e. ph.d. Boxley
A. F. Ward, m.a. Rainham
C. P. Ward Otford
Editorial Personnel
Honorary Editor Terence Lawson
(editor@kentarchaeology.org.uk)
Book Reviews Editor Dr Elizabeth Edwards
School of History
Rutherford College,
The University of Kent, CT2 7NX
(E.C.Edwards@ukc.ac.uk)