Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 144, 2023

Being Contributions to the History and Archaeology of Kent

Published by the KENT ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY Charitable Incorporated Organization no. 1176989

© 2023 Kent Archaeological Society

ISSN 0066-5894

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

Printed in Great Britain

Contents

• The eighteenth-century scriptural text boards of Romney Marsh Churches. By Gillian M. Metcalfe
  1
• Bronze Age enclosures and Saxo-Norman bakehouses: Excavations at Coldharbour Road, Gravesend. By Jake Wilson
  23
• Living standards of the small trader class in fifteenth-century Canterbury: evidence of escheators’ records. By Chris Briggs and Ben Jervis
  58
• A Prehistoric Monumental landscape at The Meads, Sittingbourne. By Tania Wilson
  73
• ‘Grey Dolphin’ and The Horse Church, Minster in Sheppey: the construction of a legend. By Oliver D. Harris
  97
• Late Bronze Age Funerary practices and subsequent activity at Pinden Quarry, Southfleet. By Chris Hayden, David Score and Tim Haines
  124
• The Marginal Drawings in the fourteenth-century Cranston MS 1117, almost certainly Canterbury-provenanced. By Julian Luxford
  152
• ‘Poor people in hovels’: a review of life at the bottom of medieval Kentish society following excavation of a low-status settlement at Monkton, Thanet. By Tim Allen
  187
• Celebrating Canterbury’s cartographic heritage: a short introduction to the City’s maps and mapmakers, c.1550-1750. By Alexander J. Kent, Avril Leach, Simon Pratt and Cressida Williams
  216
• Richborough connection project: some evidence of early Bronze Age spelt wheat and late Iron Age/Roman field systems at Hoath. By James Holman and Caroline Russell
  243
• The identity of the designer of the Bayeux tapestry. By Christine Grainge
  253
• The medieval findings at Minnis Bay, Birchington, site of the lost settlement of Gore End, limb of the Cinque Port of Dover. By Trevor and Vera Gibbons
  265
• How ‘Kent’s dramatisable coastline’ plays a significant role in the novels of Elizabeth Bowen. By Diana Hirst
  290
• The Roman Name of Canterbury and later misunderstandings. By Anthony Durham
  302

Researches and Discoveries

• A new Palaeolithic Handaxe discovery from the Fordwich Plateau.
  323
• A Neolithic Flint Axe from East Wear Bay, Folkestone.
  323
• Sydracke Hilcus, designer of the King’s Duck Decoy in St James’ Park, London: subsequently builder of the Grovehurst Decoy at Milton-next-Sittingbourne.
  327
• An eighteenth-century gold coin hoard from Chatham.
  328
• The Traction Engine explosion by All Saints, Maidstone: devastation of Monumental Inscriptions in churchyard.
  334

Reviews

• James Gerrard and Guy Seddon. By the Medway Marsh.
  338
• Doreen Rosman. Canterbury: A History since 1500, the story of a city and its people.
  345
• Susan Pittman. A.J. Clements & Sons Farmers of Gosenhill, Crockenhill, Kent.
  345
• Iain Taylor and David Killingray. Sevenoaks 1790-1914. Risk and choice in West Kent.
  346

• Kentish Bibliography
  349
• Notes on the Contributors
  355
• General Index
  359

Cover illustration: Wheatley and Ashbee’s nineteenth-century publication of Smith’s 1588 view of Canterbury. (Image copyright Canterbury Cathedral Archives). See article on pp. 216-42, fig. 5.