Front matter, Volume 138

Archæologia Cantiana

Images of Kent No. 13. Dungeness Lighthouse 1823 (William Daniell). From the KAS Library Collection.

Archæologia Cantiana

Being Contributions to the History and Archaeology of Kent

VOLUME CXXXVIII

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Published by the

KENT ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered Charity no. 223382

© 2017 Kent Archaeological Society

ISSN 0066-5894

Produced for the Society by Past Historic, Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire

Printed in Great Britain

This volume is dedicated to the memory of

Peter Stutchbury

Honorary General Secretary of the Society 2010-2015

Cover illustrations: the bright pink colouring preserved in the tracery recesses of the Faversham medieval chest façade (see pp. 115-6); part of the Minnis Bay Bronze Age hoard (see p. 261).

KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

officers and members of the council, ¹st january ²⁰¹⁷

President

G. CRAMP, ph.d.

Patrons

THE VISCOUNT DE L’ISLE, m.b.e.

THE COUNTESS SONDES

A.I. MOFFAT

C.R. POUT, m.a.

J. WHYMAN, ph.d., b.sc. (econ), assoc.cipd

PROFESSOR D. KILLINGRAY

SIR ROBERT WORCESTER, k.b.e., d.l.

Vice-Presidents

MRS S. BROOMFIELD, f.s.a.

M.L.M. CLINCH, m.a.

R.F. LEGEAR, m.c.i.f.a.

E.P. CONNELL

Honorary Editor

T. G. LAWSON, m.a.(cantab), dip.kent.hist.

Lynwood, 102 Lower Vicarage Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9AP

Honorary General Secretary

A.C. DREW

42 Crowhurst Road, Borough Green, Sevenoaks, TN15 8SJ

Honorary Treasurer

B. F. BEECHING, b.a.(hons), m.a.

Holly House, Church Road, Hoath, Canterbury, CT3 4JT

Honorary Librarian

(Vacant)

Honorary Membership Secretary

MRS S. BROOMFIELD, f.s.a.

8 Woodview Crescent, Hildenborough, Tonbridge, TN11 9HD

Honorary Curator

A. F. RICHARDSON, b.a.(hons), m.phil., ph.d., f.s.a.

Chiltern, 5 Farthingloe Cottages, Little Farthingloe,

Folkestone Road, Dover, CT15 7AA

Elected Members of the Council

H. Basford. Canterbury

C. Blair-Myers f.g.s., f.b.c.s. Canterbury

D. Brooks, pgce……………………………………………… Maidstone

K. Brown, ph.d.……………………………………………… Charing

P. Burton Charing

R.N. Cockcroft, ph.d……………………………………... Ashford

R.A.C. Cockett r.i.c.s. Gravesend

E.C. Edwards, ph.d Canterbury

K.J. Fryer Sheerness

P. Jardine-Rose Sittingbourne

K.H. Kersey, b.a. Bearsted

P.M. Reid, ph.d. Faversham

S.M. Sweetinburgh, ph.d. Canterbury

P. Titley, m.a.……………………………………………… Maidstone

C.P. Ward Otford

S.H. Willis, ph.d. Canterbury

Editorial Personnel

Honorary Editor Terence Lawson

honeditor@kentarchaeology.org

Book Reviews Editor Dr Elizabeth Edwards

Woodview,

13 Town Road,

Petham,

Canterbury,

Kent CT4 5QT

elizabeth.edwards@kentarchaeology.org

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