Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 2
Much progress made by the KAS Project Team at Lees Court today.
Badlesmere Bottom 2019 - Day 1
Logistics day at Lees Court Estate for the first day of the Badlesmere Bottom excavations.
Start of Lees Court Estate Project 2019 season
You are cordially invited to come and take part in the 2019 Season excavation on the Lees Court Estate.
Community dig at Lullingstone
Volunteers needed for the upcoming community dig at Lullingstone Roman villa. Click here for details.
‘Fortress Maidstone’ by Clive Holden now available on Society website
Clive Holden’s report is the culmination of his two years research into the military history of Maidstone in the Second World War and the plans for its defence.
The military pontoon bridge between Gravesend and Tilbury during the Great War
Victor Smith, 2019, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 140. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
A gun for Slough Fort
Keith Gulvin provides an update on the restoration of Slough Fort, Allhallows.
Notes on Contributors
Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 138. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
A Short History of Broadditch Farm alias Wastdale in Southfleet
Located at NGR TQ 6205 7072. Part of a series on Southfleet Historic Houses by R. A. C. Cockett.
General Gordon's Key?
Victor Smith highlights an iron key thought to have been used by Lt. Col. Charles G. Gordon (later General of Khartoum fame) during his stay at New Tavern Fort in Gravesend from 1865-71 when acting as Commanding Royal Engineer for the Thames District.
Rose Hill, Bobbing - An early Cottage Ornée near Sittingbourne - TQ885644
A contribution from documentary sources to a wider archaeological and topographical research study. By Roger Cockett.
New Defence Project at Gravesend
With a study of Kent’s defences during the Great War submitted to the editor of Archaeologia Cantiana for publication and an historical overview of the 20th century defences of Thanet near completion, two research and publication projects by Victor Smith are scheduled to begin in 2016.
The artillery of the Great War anti-invasion defences of Swale
Volume 23 of the Journal of the Ordnance Society has been published including a paper: 'The artillery of the Great War anti-invasion defences of the Swale area of Kent' by Alan Anstee.
Guns at Gravesend
New Tavern Fort (armed from the 1780s-1908) on Gravesend’s riverside displays a regionally important collection of 12 pieces of historic artillery.
Thanet Defences Project
Following a meeting with historians of Thanet’s military past, an assessment has begun of the available documentary sources to support a possible new project for an enhanced study of the defences of this council district.
Archcliffe exploding gun
Kyn of the Kent History Forum recounts the tale of the explosion of a 32-pounder smoothbore muzzle-loading gun mounted along the front of the battery of Archcliffe Fort on a Thursday evening of August 1860.
Preparing for Doomsday
The history and archaeology of a Cold War bunker at Gravesend: a research and reporting project.
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