Front matter, Volume 142
Archæologia Cantiana
Images of Kent No. 17. Lymne (Lympne) castle, dated 1773. From the KAS Library Collections (Kent Drawings, Vol 2).
Archæologia Cantiana
Being Contributions to the History and Archaeology of Kent
VOLUME CXLII
2021
Published by the
KENT ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Charitable Incorporated Organization no. 1176989
© 2021 Kent Archaeological Society
ISSN 0066-5894
Produced for the Society by Past Historic, Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire
Printed in Great Britain
CONTENTS
List of Officers and Members of Council vi-vii; Editorial Personnel vii; Committees, etc. viii
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1. Gavelkind on the Ground, 1550-1700. By Imogen Wedd . . . . . . . . .
2. Bigbury Camp and its associated earthworks: recent archaeological research. By Christopher Sparey-Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. William Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, and the county of Kent: a study of magnate service under Edward III. By Matthew Raven . .
4. The middle/late Iron Age and Roman finds made by Antoinette Powell-Cotton on the foreshore and cliff top at Minnis Bay, Birch-ington. By Vera and Trevor Gibbons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5. The Kentish associations of a great West Indian planter: Sir William Young (1725-1788) and his monument at Chartham.
By P.J. Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6. Evidence of a late Iron Age/early Roman settlement and an early medieval strip field system at Shadoxhurst. By Hayley Nicholls . . .
7. Rail, Risk and Repasts – The Dining Culture of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, 1888-99. By Iain Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8. Kent’s twentieth-century Military and Civil defences. Part 5 – Swale. By Victor T.C. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9. The Late Monastery of Boxley in the Countie of Kent: Court of Aug-mentations accounts for the dissolving of Boxley Abbey.
By Michael Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10. Prehistoric to Medieval Discoveries along the A21 Tonbridge-Pembury dualling scheme. By Tim G. Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11. The Manor of Elverton in the parish of Stone next Faversham.
By Duncan Harrington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12. The Roman building at Chart Sutton revisited. By Deborah Goacher.
13. Evidence of Late Roman Settlement near the site of the Church Hall, Kemsing. By Sean Wallis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
14. Near the heart of Romano-British Durovernum: Excavations at 70 Stour Street, Canterbury. By Damien Boden and Jake Weekes . . . .
15. Researches and Discoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
St Thomas Becket and the pilgrim souvenirs in Canterbury’s collections
Alexander Iden, captor of Jack Cade (1450): his family and the evidence of a memorial in Penshurst Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
When was Canterbury Cathedral’s medieval library building de-molished? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The ‘Hales Palace’ Estate Map (1715) recovered to Canterbury . .
James Blackman’s letters to the governor of New South Wales on the illicit distillers, 1806 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
16. Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Francis Wenban-Smith, Elizabeth Stafford, Martin Bates and Simon Parfitt. Prehistoric Ebbsfleet. Excavations and Research in Advance of High Speed I and South Thameside Development Route 4, 1989-2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Keith Parfitt and Stuart Needham. Ceremonial Living in the Third Millennium BC: Excavations at Ringlemere Site M1, Kent, 2002-2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
James Holman et al. Medieval New Romney a Town Shaped by Water: The archaeology of the First Time Sewer Scheme . . . . . .
Paul Pattison, Stephen Brindle and David M. Robinson (eds). The Great Tower of Dover Castle – History, Architecture and Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Paul A. Fox. Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale. A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Claire Bartram (ed.). Kentish Book Culture: Writers, Archives, Libraries and Sociability 1400-1660 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chris Rowley. ‘Just a Bit Barmy’. The Princess Christian Farm Colony and Hospital 1895-1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Brendan Chester-Kadwell (ed.). Burnham Norton Friary. Perspect-ives on the Carmelites in Norfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Susan Pittman. The Miller Family, Farmers of Wested Farm; The Lee Family, Farmers at Crockenhill; John Wood and Family, Farmers of the Mount, Crockenhill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
17 Kentish Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
18. Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
19. General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
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59
81
105
118
132
148
176
188
235
253
273
286
299
299
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321
326
330
333
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Cover illustration: three of the artefacts featured in volume – prehistoric pebble hammer (bottom), see pp. 219-21; two-handled flagon of New Forest ware (above left), pp. 82-84; Rood of Grace pilgrim badge (above right), pp. 176-78.
KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
officers and members of the council, 1st january 2021
President
Prof. K. Brown, m.a. (cantab.), pg.dip.ch., ph.d., f.r.s.a.
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
M.L.M. CLINCH, m.a.
R.F. LEGEAR, m.c.i.f.a.
S.H. WILLIS, b.a., m.a., ph.d.
G. CRAMP, b.sc., ph.d.
Editor
T. G. LAWSON, m.a.(cantab), dip.kent.hist.
honeditor@kentarchaeology.org.uk
General Secretary
A.C. DREW
secretary@kentarchaeology.org
Treasurer
B. F. BEECHING, b.a.(hons), m.a.
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Librarian
MRS R. G. SMALLEY, b.a., grad. dip. lib. sci., m.sc, m.a., dip. arch.
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Membership Secretary
MRS S. BROOMFIELD, f.s.a.
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Curator
Dr E.D. BLANNING, b.a., m.a., ph.d.
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Elected Members of the Council
H. Basford, b.a., m.phil. . Canterbury
F. Birkbeck, b.a., Canterbury
C. Blair-Myers f.g.s., f.b.c.s. Maidstone
P. Burton Charing
S. Clifton Maidstone
M. Curtis Sevenoaks
K.H. Kersey, b.a. Bearsted
S.M. Sweetinburgh, ph.d. Canterbury
R.W. Taylor, b.a., m.a., pgce Gravesend
P. Titley, b.a., m.a. ……………………………………………… Maidstone
C.P. Ward Otford
Editorial Personnel
Editor Terence Lawson
Book Reviews Editor Dr Elizabeth Edwards
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