Preliminaries, Volume 142

Contents

• Gavelkind on the Ground, 1550-1700. By Imogen Wedd
  1
• Bigbury Camp and its associated earthworks: recent archaeological research. By Christopher Sparey-Green
  31
• William Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, and the county of Kent: a study of magnate service under Edward III. By Matthew Raven
  59
• The middle/late Iron Age and Roman finds made by Antoinette Powell-Cotton on the foreshore and cliff top at Minnis Bay, Birchington. By Vera and Trevor Gibbons
  81
• The Kentish associations of a great West Indian planter: Sir William Young (1725-1788) and his monument at Chartham. By P.J. Marshall
  105
• Evidence of a late Iron Age/early Roman settlement and an early medieval strip field system at Shadoxhurst. By Hayley Nicholls
  118
• Rail, Risk and Repasts – The Dining Culture of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, 1888-99. By Iain Taylor
  132
• Kent’s twentieth-century Military and Civil defences. Part 5 – Swale. By Victor T.C. Smith
  148
• The Late Monastery of Boxley in the Countie of Kent: Court of Augmentations accounts for the dissolving of Boxley Abbey. By Michael Carter
  176
• Prehistoric to Medieval Discoveries along the A21 Tonbridge-Pembury dualling scheme. By Tim G. Allen
  188
• The Manor of Elverton in the parish of Stone next Faversham. By Duncan Harrington
  235
• The Roman building at Chart Sutton revisited. By Deborah Goacher
  253
• Evidence of Late Roman Settlement near the site of the Church Hall, Kemsing. By Sean Wallis
  273
• Near the heart of Romano-British Durovernum: Excavations at 70 Stour Street, Canterbury. By Damien Boden and Jake Weekes
  286

Researches and Discoveries

• St Thomas Becket and the pilgrim souvenirs in Canterbury’s collections
  299
• Alexander Iden, captor of Jack Cade (1450): his family and the evidence of a memorial in Penshurst Church
  299
• When was Canterbury Cathedral’s medieval library building demolished?
  311
• The ‘Hales Palace’ Estate Map (1715) recovered to Canterbury
  321
• James Blackman’s letters to the governor of New South Wales on the illicit distillers, 1806
  326

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
  333
• Keith Parfitt and Stuart Needham. Ceremonial Living in the Third Millennium BC: Excavations at Ringlemere Site M1, Kent, 2002-2006
  333
• James Holman et al. Medieval New Romney a Town Shaped by Water: The archaeology of the First Time Sewer Scheme
  334
• Paul Pattison, Stephen Brindle and David M. Robinson (eds). The Great Tower of Dover Castle – History, Architecture and Context
  336
• 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
  338
• Claire Bartram (ed.). Kentish Book Culture: Writers, Archives, Libraries and Sociability 1400-1660
  340
• Chris Rowley. ‘Just a Bit Barmy’. The Princess Christian Farm Colony and Hospital 1895-1995
  342
• Brendan Chester-Kadwell (ed.). Burnham Norton Friary. Perspectives on the Carmelites in Norfolk
  345
• Susan Pittman. The Miller Family, Farmers of Wested Farm; The Lee Family, Farmers at Crockenhill; John Wood and Family, Farmers of the Mount, Crockenhill
  345

• Kentish Bibliography
  346
• Notes on Contributors
  347
• General Index
  353