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Archæologia Cantiana SESQUICENTENNIAL VOLUME Images of Kent No. 5. Mereworth Castle (from the KAS Library Collections). At the invitation of Viscount Falmouth the inaugural meeting of the Kent Archaeological Society was held in the Old State Bedroom on 19 September 1857. Archæologia Cantiana Being Contributions to the History and Archaeology of Kent VOLUME CXXVII 2007 Published by the KENT ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY Registered Charity no. 223382 © 2007 Kent Archaeological Society ISSN 0066-5894 Produced for the Society by Past Historic, Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire Printed in Great Britain iv CONTENTS List of Officers and Members of Council vii-viii; Editorial Personnel viii PAGE 1. The Kent Archaeological Society and the Development of Archaeology and Historical Studies in Kent, 1957-2007. By Frank Panton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 150 years of Local History: Local Kentish Practice and National Trends. B y Sandra Dunster and Elizabeth Edwards. . . . . . . . . . 3. Excavations at Ringlemere Farm, Woodnesborough, 2002- 2006. By Keith Parfitt and Stuart Needham . . . . . . . . 4. The Kent Hundred Rolls: Local Government and Corruption in the Thirteenth Century. By Jennifer Ward . . . . . . . . . 5. Excavations at Fremlin Walk, Maidstone. B y Catherine Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. Kent and the Abolition of the Slave Trade: a County Study, 1760s-1807. By David Killingray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. Feeding the Moat: Excavations near the site of Edenbridge Manor House. By Kate Brady and Edward Biddulph . 8. The Hundred of Wye and the Great Revolt of 1381. B y David De Saxe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. Dating the Cremation in a Biconical Urn at the Early Bronze Age Barrow, Hill Road, Wouldham. By John Cruse . . 10. Westwell–the Establishment of a Village. By Mary Adams 11. Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement at Bishop’s Avenue, North Foreland, Broadstairs. By Gerald Moody . . . . . 12. The Road Services of Kent in the Nineteenth Century. B y F. W. G. Andrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. Excavation of an Iron Age and Saxon Site at South Willes-borough, Ashford. By Simon Deeves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14. The Long Demise of the Wantsum Sea Channel: a Recapit-ulation based on the Data. By Dave Perkins . . . . . . . . 15. The Roman Villa at Minster-in-Thanet. Part 4: the South-West Buildings, 6A and 6B. By Keith Parfitt . . . . . . . . 16. The Medieval Tile-Makers of Borough Green. By Jayne Semple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17. Interim Reports on recent work carried out by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18. The Scratch Dials of Kent. By Chris H. K. Williams . . . 19. How Kent’s recently discovered Causewayed Enclosures impact on our understanding and interpretation of the Early Neolithic in the Region. By John Hammond . . . . 1 21 39 57 73 107 127 143 163 175 197 213 237 249 261 297 321 333 357 20. The Political Allegiances of Christ Church Priory 1400-1472: the Evidence of John Stone’s Chronicle. By Meriel Connor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21. Underground Ragstone Quarries in Kent: a brief Overview. By Rod LeGear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. Researches and Discoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Multi-Period Features: Spratling Street, Manston . . . . Prehistoric Crouched Inhumations and an Anglo-Saxon Sunken Featured Building: St Peter’s Road, Margate. Bronze Age Ring-Ditch: Bradstow School, Broadstairs . Clay Lane Wood, Cobham: a Bronze-Age Cult Site? . . . Bronze & Iron Age Occupation: Hartsdown Road, Margate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Late Iron Age/Early Roman period Features: Seacroft Road, Broadstairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geoarchaeological Results at Knight Road, Strood . . . Evidence for Middle Saxon occupation at Otford . . . . . Church of St Mary The Virgin, Minster-in-Thanet . . . . . An early gallery at Chislehurst Caves . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jane Austen and the Tokes of Godinton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19. Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. Ayers and T. Tatton-Brown (eds), Medieval Art, Archit-ecture and Archaeology at Rochester . . . . . . . . . . . . . K . Parfitt et al., Townwall Street, Dover, Excavations 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C hris Stringer, Homo Britannicus. The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colin Flight, The Survey of the Whole of England: Studies of the documentation resulting from the survey conducted in 1086 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S . Chadwick-Hawkes and G. Grainger, The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Finglesham, Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . L . Barber, Medieval Life on Romney Marsh: archaeo-logical discoveries from around Lydd . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Diak, A Bronze Age Settlement at Kemsley, near Sittingbourne, Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P . Wilkinson, The Historical Development of the Port of Faversham 1580-1780 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. Short, England’s Landscape: The South East . . . . . . . J . Thirsk et al., Hadlow: Life, Land and People in a Wealden Parish 1460-1600 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M . E. Mate, Trade and Economic Developments, 1450-1550. The Experience of Kent, Surrey and Sussex . . 383 407 421 421 422 423 424 429 429 430 432 434 435 436 439 439 440 441 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 452 vi H. Harding, Farningham and its Mill. A History of a Village in Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( no author given) Images of Horton Kirby Paper Mill . . . E. James (ed), Shoreham at War: The People of Shoreham, Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T . L. Richardson, Historic Sandwich and its Region 1500-1900. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H . Stennett and K. H. McIntosh (eds), Broad Oak, A Kentish Village Recon-sidered, and Elvington. All Snap Tins and Sunshine. The Story of a Kent Mining Village from 1900 to 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20. Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21. Notes on the Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. Annual Report and Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23. Committees of the Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24. List of Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25. Kentish Bibliography 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26. General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 455 456 458 459 461 463 467 474 475 509 517 vii KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY officers and members of the council, 1st january 2007 President C. R. POUT, b.a., m.a. Patrons THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 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. P. E. OLDHAM, m.a. F. H. PANTON, c.b.e., ph.d. 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. B. BROOMFIELD, f.s.a. 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 viii Elected Members of the Council D. Bacchus ..................................................................... Rochester M. Berg, m.a., m.sc. ...................................................... Canterbury E. P. Connell .................................................................. New Ash Green J. M. Gibson, ph.d........................................................... Maidstone P. A. Harlow ................................................................... Rochester R. C. Higgs...................................................................... Weald K.H. Kersey, b.a. ............................................................ Bearsted R. F. LeGear, m.a.a.i.s., a.i.f.a. .................................... Ashford A. F. Richardson, b.a., m.phil., ph.d. ........................... Dover S.M. Sweetinburgh, ph.d. ............................................... Canterbury C.P. Ward ........................................................................ Otford S.H. Willis, ph.d. ............................................................ 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