Front matter, Volume 141

Contents

• ‘Robbed in Antiquity’: Grave opening in seventh-century east Kent – stimulated by cross-Channel influences. By Alison Klevnäs
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• William Somner (1606-1669). Part II. By David Wright
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• Republican Dressel 1 Amphorae from East Wear Bay, Folkstone. By Adrian Weston
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• Three Weeks of Journeys, Ecclesiastical Ceremony and Entertainment in Kent: letters from Mary Yorke, 1774. By Anthea Jones
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• An unusual fifteenth-century building with a special first-floor ‘Meeting Room’ – 15 Knightrider Street, Maidstone. By David and Barbara Martin
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• England’s earliest painted and framed Royal Coat of Arms (Edward VI, 1547-53) in St Mary’s Church, Westerham: the work of a Low Countries’ artist commissioned by the Gresham Family. By David M. Boston
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• The Deal-type inhumations in Kent: defining an Iron Age mortuary group in light of new discoveries. By Andrew W. Lamb
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• The Brickmaking Industry in Kent c.1825-1900. By Peter Tann
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• The History of the Carmelite Priory at Lossenham, Newenden, c.1243-1538. By Richard Copsey
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• Rochester Cathedral Masons’ marks. By Jacob H. Scott
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• Community care: Civic charitable institutions in the Kentish Cinque Ports, c.1300-c.1500. By Sheila Sweetinburgh
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• Reconstructing the Prehistoric Landscapes of the Littlebrook Power station site, Dartford. By Phil Stastney et al.
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• Understanding Becket’s Canterbury: the Legacy of William Urry. By Cressida Williams
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• A Roman tile-kiln and an associated third-century hoard of sestertii at Bircholt Farm, Brabourne. By Ernest Black et al.
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• Dover Castle and Royal Power in twelfth-century Kent. By Richard Eales
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• Excavations in Westgate Gardens, Canterbury, revealing the changing character of Roman Watling Street, and Durovernum’s evolving street layout. By Jake Weekes
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• Two neighbouring Kent Estates near Hythe and their remarkable artistic connections in the mid eighteenth century. By Rodney Griffiths
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Research and Discoveries

• A Neolithic polished flint axe from East Wear Bay, Folkestone
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• A previously unrecorded Prehistoric barrow on Coxhill Mount, River, near Dover
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• The place name Kent and Welsh Cant ‘rim’; ‘wall’
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• A late eleventh-century Rochester manuscript apparently echoing the political message of the Bayeux Tapestry
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• A 1261 charter, a seal and a depiction of Canterbury’s pre-1380 Westgate
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• Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval activity at Court Lodge Road, Appledore
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• The conundrum of the apex window at St Mary the Virgin Church, Eastry
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• Some further bee boles found in Kent at Old St Albans Court, Nonington
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• An example of the Kent parish returns listing contributions received for the distressed Protestants of Ireland, 1642: those for Elham
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Reviews

• P. Clark, G. Shand and J. Weekes. Chalk Hill, Neolithic and Bronze Age discoveries at Ramsgate, Kent
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• G. Dawkes, D. Hart, K. Grant and D. Swift. Beyond the Wantsum: Archaeological investigations in South Thanet, Kent
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• G. Dawkes. Living by the Creek. Excavations at Kemsley near Sittingbourne, Kent
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• Caroline K. Mackenzie. Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa
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• Carolyn Marino Malone. Twelfth-century Sculptural Finds at Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Thomas Becket
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• B. Awty. Adventure in Iron: the blast furnace and its spread from Namur to northern France, England and North America, 1450-1650: a technological, political and genealogical investigation
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• T.L. Richardson. Tudor Sandwich: A Social History
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• Ros Shefford (ed.). Minnis Memories and More
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• Obituary
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• Notes on Contributors
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• Committees of the Society
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• General Index
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