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Archaeology Research Group meeting minutes
Minutes of the meeting held on 27th April 2024 at Shooter’s Lodge, Stringman’s Farm, Lees Court Estate.
Kent Defences Archive Reports available on the Society website
Victor Smith has very kindly supplied scans of a number of reports, now made available on thee Society website.
Capel Battery Project
Chris Harman of the Capel Battery Preservation Group provides an update on a project to restore the remnants of the structures at Capel on the north of the Weald.
The Roman building at Chart Sutton revisited
Deborah Goacher, 2021, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 142. Maidstone: Kent Archeological Society.
Kent’s twentieth-century Military and Civil defences. Part 5 – Swale
Victor T. C. Smith and Alan Anstee, 2021, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 142. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
A Roman military discovery in Gravesend?
Recently published findings from the excavations of the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit in Gravesend in 1989 draw attention to the discovery of a riverside Romano-British settlement over an area of at least 5 acres, a road extending inland, and a possible Roman military site.
Bones found in Kent church likely to be of 7th-century saint
Bones discovered more than a century ago in a Kent church are almost certainly the remains of an early English saint who was the granddaughter of Ethelbert, the first English king to convert to Christianity, experts have concluded.
Stringmans Excavation Episode 3 - Revenge of the Monument
Richard Taylor provides an update on excavations in Stringmans Field at Lees Court Estate.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 12 Final Day
Fred Birkbeck provides a final update from Badlesmere Bottom at Lees Court Estate.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 10
Fred Birkbeck reports on another day of excavations at Badlesmere Bottom on Lees Court Estate.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 11
Penultimate day of the Badlesmere Bottom dig and all features are getting tidied, drawn and recorded.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 9
A report on training day for the excavations at Badlesmere Bottom on Lees Court Estate.
Badlesmere Bottom - Day 8
Fred Birkbeck reports on excavations at Badlesmere Bottom on Lees Court Estate.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Days 6 and 7
Fred Birkbeck reports on day 5 of the dig at Badlesmere Bottom at Lees Court Estate.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 5
Fred Birkbeck reports on day 5 of the dig at Badlesmere Bottom at Lees Court Estate.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 4
Members aplenty at the Badlesmere Bottom dig today, the word has escaped that we have some interesting archaeology to be investigated.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 3
Day 3 on site and time to start digging in earnest (in very compact clay in actual fact!).
Community dig at Lullingstone
Volunteers needed for the upcoming community dig at Lullingstone Roman villa. Click here for details.
- Archaeology Research Group
- Boxley
- Broadstairs
- Chart Sutton
- Cold War
- Conservation
- Defences
- Detling
- Gravesend
- Heritage
- Historic Buildings Research Group
- Iron Age
- Kent Defences Research Group
- Maritime Kent Research Group
- Medieval
- Military History
- Modern
- Place Names Research Group
- Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
- Swale
