Repairing an ancient abbey in Kent
In July 2021, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings returned to Boxley Abbey in Kent for a week of hands-on learning, site visits and barbecues!
The Kent Archaeological Place-Names Group presents a walk around the Meopham Anglo-Saxon Charter boundary
Mark Bateson, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 118 (Spring 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Kent Defence Research Group (Special Interest Group) - Update
Clive Holden, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
President’s Column
KAS Magazine, Issue 117 (New Year 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Discovering Kent’s wartime airfields that never were
Paul Tritton, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 117 (New Year 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Old House Project at St Andrews and the Hospitium at Boxley Abbey, Kent
KAS Magazine, Issue 117 (New Year 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Maritime Kent Through the Ages
A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent from the earliest times to the present day. Edited by Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards and Sheila Sweetinburgh.
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.
Surviving Doomsday?: The Cold War Bunker at Gravesend
Victor Smith, 2021, KAS Magazine, Issue 116 (Summer 2021). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Moir Pillbox discovered at Botany Bay
Paul Tritton, 2023, KAS Magazine, Issue 120 (Summer 2023). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Centre for Experimental Military Archaeology at Detling
David Flintham, 2021, KAS Magazine, Issue 116 (Summer 2021). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
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.
Manorial Documents Register
The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) is the official index to English and Welsh manorial records and provides brief descriptions of documents and details of their locations in public and private hands. The National Archives at Kew now provide online access to this resource. Manorial documents include court rolls, surveys, maps, terriers, documents and books of every description relating to the boundaries, franchises, wastes, customs or courts of a manor.
Randall Manor, Shorne Woods
Randall Manor, once home to the de Cobhams of Randall, is situated within what is now Shorne Woods Country Park, near Gravesend in Kent. This talk covers the community excavations between 2006 and 2015 and the history of the site.
Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project reports online
Reports from the "Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project" are currently available to download online, via the Historic England website.
A History of the County of Kent (Vol. 2)
British History Online provides a digital version of "A history of the County of Kent: volume 2", originally published in 1926. This volume deals with the religious houses of Kent, including accounts of the early history of Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals.
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- Archaeology Research Group
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- Bronze Age
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- Historic Buildings Research Group
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- Hollingbourne
- Iron Age
- Kent Defences Research Group
- Lees Court
- Lees Court Estate Project
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- Medieval
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- Modern
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- Orpington & District Archaeological Society
- Otford
- Place Names
- Place Names Research Group
- Place Names Research group
- Prehistoric
- Sittingbourne
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- Southfleet
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- World War I
- World War II