Front matter, Volume 140

Contents

• The Roman Villa at Minster in Thanet. Part 12: Quernstones and Millstones. By Ruth Shaffrey
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• ‘Devotion to the uncovering and recording of a nation’s language and a city’s antiquities’: the life of William Somner of Canterbury (1606-1669). Part I. By David Wright
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• An unusual pit and other nearby prehistoric finds at Woodnesborough. By Keith Parfitt
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• Elizabethan and early Stuart Thanet: the Expansion of Education Provision and its impact on literacy levels. By Margaret Bolton
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• Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age site on the banks of the Goresend Creek, Minnis Bay, Birchington. By Trevor and Vera Gibbons
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• The Merchant Fleet and Ship-Board Community of Kent, c.1565-c.1580. By Craig L. Lambert and Gary P. Baker
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• Later Prehistoric settlement and ceramics from the Downland fringes at New Thanington, Canterbury. By Graeme Clarke and Matthew Brudenell
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• Playing the Passion in late fifteenth-century New Romney: the Playwardens’ Account Fragment. By James Gibson† and Sheila Sweetinburgh
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• The Hive of Activity at the ‘Glasshouse’ 1585-7 – a Window on the Development of Knole. By Stephen Draper
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• The Kentish Demonym – or, the Demonym of Kent. By James Lloyd
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• Alphanumeric Graffiti at Rochester Cathedral. By Dan Graham and Jacob H. Scott
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• Dorothy Johnston of Appledore: her wartime experiences and gift of a stretch of the Royal Military Canal to the National Trust. By Felicity Stimpson
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• Bailiffs and Canterbury’s Firma Burgi in the thirteenth century. By John H. Williams
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• The Lead Font at the Church of St Margaret, Wychling. By Paula Jardine-Rose
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• A key figure among Kent’s fifteenth-century gentry: Sir John Fogge’s career and his motivations for rebuilding St Mary’s Church, Ashford. By Gillian Draper
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• A re-examination of the late nineteenth-century Palaeolithic finds in the Upper Cray area, Bromley. By Frank R. Beresford
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• Archaeological investigations at New Haine Road, Westwood, Broadstairs: further observations of a prehistoric agricultural landscape on the Isle of Thanet. By Tania Wilson
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• The military pontoon bridge between Gravesend and Tilbury during the Great War. By Victor Smith
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Research and Discoveries

• Mesolithic geoarchaeological investigations in the outer Thames Estuary
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• Excavations at Church Field Roman Villa, Otford, possibly a site of very early Christian worship
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• A map drawn by Christopher Saxton of the estate owned by Henry Saker of Faversham
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• An exceptional late eighteenth-century assemblage from Faversham
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Reviews

• John Pearce and Jake Weekes (eds). Death as a Process: The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral
  320
• Simon Elliott. Ragstone to Riches: Imperial Estates, metalla and the Roman Military in the South East of Britain during the Occupation
  327
• Alison Hicks and Mark Houliston. Within the Walls: The Developing Town c. AD 750-1325, Canterbury Whitefriars Excavations 1999-2004
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• Patricia Reid, Duncan Harrington and Michael Fronsdorff. Faversham in the Making. The Early Years: The Ice Age until AD 1550
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• Sir John Lushington Bt. From Men of Kent to Men of the World: A History of the Lushington Family in the Eighteenth Century
  330
• Maureen P. Green. The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill
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• Anne Carwardine. Disgusted Ladies. The women of Tunbridge Wells who fought for the right to vote
  334
• Julian Wilson. Revolutionary Tunbridge Wells. The remarkable role of Tunbridge Wells in the development of revolutionary politics in Britain 1884-1919
  335
• Paul Tritton. Searching for Ebony. A long-lost village on an inland island
  336
• George Frampton. Discordant Comicals. The Hooden Horse of East Kent
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• Kentish Bibliography
  339
• Committees of the Society
  339
• Obituary
  341
• Notes on Contributors
  350
• General Index
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