Front matter, Volume 134
Archæologia Cantiana
Images of Kent No. 11. An early nineteenth-century print of Barming Church, formerly East Barming Church, showing the north side of the nave before the Victorian aisle was built, the entrance to the churchyard from the south (now from the east) and the secular buildings to the east (now gone). Fron the Petrie Collection in the KAS Library.
Archæologia Cantiana
Being Contributions to the History and Archaeology of Kent
VOLUME CXXXIV
2014
Published by the
KENT ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Registered Charity no. 223382
© 2014 Kent Archaeological Society
ISSN 0066-5894
Produced for the Society by Past Historic, Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire
Printed in Great Britain
Preface
The William and Edith Oldham Charitable Trust is pleased to fund the production and distribution costs of this additional volume of Archaeologia Cantiana. This sponsorship responds to the amount of research material awaiting publication by the Kent Archaeological Society, reflecting the lively interest in Kentish archaeology and history as well as the reputation of Archaeologia Cantiana. Publication has been the first duty of the Society with the traditional standards, style and format of the annual volume contributing to its success. Terry Lawson has been a distinguished Hon. Editor for the Society and the Charity thanks him for the ready agreement to work on this extra volume.
The William and Edith Oldham Charitable Trust was founded in 1995 in memory of my parents. A variety of educational and community causes can be supported as can the study of the history and archaeology of Kent. Objects may be acquired for museums and grants made to historic buildings, including churches.
The Charitable Trust and the Kent Archaeological Society share many interests and concerns for the public benefit.
paul oldham
Chairman of Trustees
The William and Edith Oldham Charitable Trust
(Hermitage Lane, Barming)
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1. The History and Architectural Development of the Old Bishop’s Palace, Rochester. By Patricia A. Clarke . . . .
2. Continuity and Change in the Late Iron Age/Roman transition within the environs of Quarry Wood Oppidum: excavations at Furfield Quarry, Boughton Monchelsea. By Isca Howell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. A Maritime Community in War and Peace: Kentish Ports, Ships and Mariners, 1320-1400. By Andrew Ayton and Craig Lambert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4. Farmsteads and Landscapes in Kent. By Jeremy Lake, Bob Edwards and Nicola Bannister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. Archaeological Investigations at Maidstone hospital, Hermitage Lane, Barming. By Simon Stevens . . . . . . .
6. The Barfrestone Conundrum: ‘Much Restored’ but ‘Virtu-ally Unaltered’. By Charles Coulson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7. Archaeological Investigations of a Major Building, prob-ably Roman, and related landscape features at Bourne Park, Bishopsbourne, 2011-12. By Lacey Wallace et al.
8. Literacy and Book Ownership in Seventeenth-Century Faversham. By Linda Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9. Exploiting the Wildwood: evidence from a Mesolithic activity site at Finglesham, near Deal. By Keith Parfitt and Geoff Halliwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10. A History of the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Diocese of Canterbury, 1566-86, based on the Cause papers bound within the Volume MS.F.4.12. By Karen Rushton . . . .
11. The Grebills of Benenden, the Prior of Leeds, and the Heresy Trial of 1511. By Paul R. Cavill . . . . . . . . . . . .
12. Research Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A middle Bronze Age palstave axe from St Margaret’s-at-Cliffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The place name Trottiscliffe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Faversham Corporation’s right to use of the Court Hall .
The Morphett family’s experience of gavelkind in the eighteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chalkwell subsidence at Oad Street, near Sittingbourne .
Anti-invasion defences of the First World War and Slough fort, Allhallows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . k Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Peter Tann with Michael Frohnsdorff and Duncan Harr-ington. The Royal Charters of Faversham including Magna Carta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sheila Sweetinburgh (ed.). Negotiating the Political in Northern European Urban Society, c.1400-c.1600 . .
Sandra Dunster. The Medway Towns: River, Docks and Urban Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lawrence and Marjorie Lyle. Canterbury and the Gothic Revival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
T.L. Richardson. Elizabeth Carter of Deal, 1717-1806, a Social History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Faversham Society. The History of Faversham in 50 Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Christine Rayner. 50 Years of the Faversham Society, 1962-2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sarah Pearson. History Revealed: The Faversham Society Houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Margaret Lawrence. The Life They Left Behind: Those Who Lost Ther Lives 1914-18, 1939-1945: Remembrance: The Holy Trinity War Memorial East Peckham, Kent .
14. Kentish Bibliography 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15. Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16. General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Editorial Personnel
Honorary Editor Terence Lawson
terryglawson@btinternet.com
Book Reviews Editor Dr Elizabeth Edwards
Woodview,
13 Town Road,
Petham,
Canterbury,
Kent CT4 5QT
ecedwards84@googlemail.com
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