Notices
ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTIANA AVAILABLE
Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library have two runs of Archaeologia Cantiana available to a good home. The volumes would need to be collected. Further details below – note there are likely/definitely gaps in the runs!
Archaeologia Cantiana (vol.1 (1858) – vol.122 (2002)) – potentially with gaps
Archaeologia Cantiana (vol. 33 (1918) – vol.116 (1996)) - with gaps
Also available are three volumes of
Archaeologia (vols. 106, 108, 109). If interested, please contact:
(Mrs) Fawn Todd, Cathedral Librarian (she/her)
Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library
Telephone: +44 (0)1227 865330
Fawn.Todd@canterbury- cathedral.org
LIBRARY OF ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTIANA – VOLUMES 1 (1858) TO 143 (2022)
I would pass them on in one single transaction. I am not able to make about sixty visits to the Post Office! Ideally, someone would collect them from me in Walmer.
Any reasonable offer would do it!
Please get in touch with Peter Tann at peter.tann@btinternet.com
NEW BOOK RELEASE: ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE FRONT LINE 70 YEARS
OF RESCUE 1952–2022 ACROSS KENT AND S.E.LONDON
By Brian Philp
This much-awaited book is a second edition covering the first 50 years recorded in the (sold-out) first edition but adding another 20 years of Events and Sites up until 2022. With 300 pages, it has 350 illustrations, the great majority colour. It describes the battles, strategies and victories over this long period with sites saved by instant recording or preservation, often in the face of severe problems. These include the Roman Forum in London, the Royal Abbey at Faversham, four Roman forts at Dover and Reculver, six Roman villas, two Saxon cemeteries, three palaces and four manor-houses.
It also lists the many published reports that are an unmatched record of publication across the county, now totalling over 400. Many awards have followed this uniquely Kentish progress.
Whilst often amusing but sometimes hard-hitting, an important feature is the acknowledgement by name of over 240 key team members of the 2,000 who joined in the numerous training, excavation, presentation and reporting events. Nor are the cringe-worthy Gremlins left out!
The slightly anonymous character of this epic Kentish tale is the author, who started his archaeological career on 6th February 1952 whilst at Bromley Grammar School. That day the head declared, “The King has died”, and closed the school.
Instead of leaving, Brian slipped into the library to discover a book on the Roman shore-forts. He began his long career with 40 years of excavation on the lost fort at Dover, 18 years of excavation on the eroding fort at Reculver and 700 other projects. Hence Archaeology on the Front Line.
Order your copy from: Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, 18 Highfield Avenue, Orpington, Kent BR6 6LF.
Price £20.00, plus £4 postage.
All those thanked in the text, or who were Council for Kentish Archaeology supporters, have rightly earned a 20% discount.
Please make cheques payable to KARU.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY
Evolution of a downland landscape: Nonington 700–1400
Suitable for a Masters by Research, either full-time or part-time, we at the Centre for Kent History and Heritage at Canterbury Christ Church University have some funding for a historical landscape project based in east Kent.
Are you interested in Kent’s early medieval history?
Have you ever wondered how the different estates in the countryside came into being during the time of the Kingdom of Kent and beyond, and how they developed either side of the
Norman Conquest as the pressure of the Norman presence came to bear on the Kentish countryside?
If so, then this project may be just right for you! Called ‘The Evolution of a Downland Landscape: Nonington 700–1400’, we know there is a good corpus of charter and other documentary materials and evidence from archaeological and topographical work. For preliminary enquiries, please get in touch with me at sheila. sweetinburgh@canterbury.ac.uk and we can discuss your ideas.
