The Literary History of Kent
Talk at the Kent Archaeological Society Annual General Meeting, University of Kent. May 18th 2019.
By Kerry Brown
The Inventory, Accounts and Probates of Henry Saker of Faversham
Archaeologia Cantiana 2019 - Supplementary information added.
Community Dig at Lullingstone
Volunteers needed for the upcoming community dig at Lullingstone Roman villa. Click here for details:
New Website Feature - Kent Archaeological Reports
Great news - we have added a new feature to our Kent Archaeological Reports. You can now use an interactive map to find reports in an area and even sort by Phase. You are still able to look at the full reports in a list format as well, however the sorting facility allows you more freedom to find the reports you are interested in for example, Anglo-Saxon etc.
You can find this new feature via the publications drop-down or click on the link below to go there now:-
William Somner (1606-1669) 23-3-2019
Conference & Exhibition celebrating the 350th Anniversary of this great Kentish scholar
More details on the attached poster.
KAS will host SERIAC 2019 Conference 13th April 2019
South East Region Industrial Archaeology Conference
KAS will be hosting the South East Region Industrial Archaeology Conference 2019.
The event will be held on April 13th at Dartford Grammar School.
Full details from Mike Clinch. Mike Clinch
CCCU-Community Education Day School
CASTLE LIFE IN KENT AND SUSSEX
This day school will explore the life of people living in castles in Kent and Sussex in the Middle Ages. We will take an overview of castles as both fortresses and homes of the aristocracy, but focus on as much as possible on all those who lived and worked around them – from cooks to carpenters, hunters to poachers, and more. Our specific examples of castles and their estates will be Scotney, Bodiam, Ightham Mote and Knole, and we will draw on the latest research and new techniques for investigating past lives and landscapes
Abstracts of 80 Ebony Wills dating from 1468 to 1557 now online
It is amazing that such a small place as Ebony has produced such a lot of Wills in a relatively short space of time. There are a lot of surnames, field names, place names in them, and also, when you read through them, quite a few occupations – fisherman, smith, haberdasher, etc. plus most of them left money to the church, including John Raynold, who left money to build a new church there in about 1520
385 M.I.s from Maidstone Road Cemetery, Chatham are now online
The cemetery, which opened in 1869, was needed because the Chatham burial ground at Whiffen’s Avenue was coming to the end of it’s life.
375 M.I.s from All Saints Church, Maidstone churchyard are now online
All Saints Church, Maidstone, which was built by Archbishop Courtney, from 1395, is a major church building in the perpendicular style, the finest of this style in Kent. The interior is over 90 feet in width, with an equally impressive length and height. The pavement is “choc a bloc” with ledger stones, mainly of the 18th and 19th centuries (inscriptions can be seen online on the church website). There are some impressive medieval tombs, including that of Archbishop Courtney, himself.