Sharing conservation skills at historic Kent buildings
For a week in July 2022, 98 volunteers, specialists and staff of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) gathered to help at the Old House Project, and neighbouring Boxley Abbey in Kent.
Kent Defence Research Group Visit to Dover
A damp September morning saw us gathering at the National Trust’s White Cliffs site at Dover to tour their Fan Bay and Wanstone Second World War gun battery sites.
The Tudor Gravesend Blockhouse Restabilised
Victor Smith, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Hollingbourne Zero Station
Keith Gulvin, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Something at the end of the Garden
Victor Smith, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Discovering Boxley Abbey: Old House Project
A recording of the talk the KAS discussing the work of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings at the Old House, Boxley supported by the Historic Buildings Special Interest Group.
Repairing an ancient abbey in Kent
In July 2021, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings returned to Boxley Abbey in Kent for a week of hands-on learning, site visits and barbecues!
The Kent Archaeological Place-Names Group presents a walk around the Meopham Anglo-Saxon Charter boundary
Mark Bateson, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 118 (Spring 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Kent Defence Research Group (Special Interest Group) - Update
Clive Holden, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
President’s Column
KAS Magazine, Issue 117 (New Year 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Discovering Kent’s wartime airfields that never were
Paul Tritton, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 117 (New Year 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Old House Project at St Andrews and the Hospitium at Boxley Abbey, Kent
KAS Magazine, Issue 117 (New Year 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Maritime Kent Through the Ages
A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent from the earliest times to the present day. Edited by Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards and Sheila Sweetinburgh.
Kent Defences Archive Reports available on the Society website
Victor Smith has very kindly supplied scans of a number of reports, now made available on thee Society website.
Capel Battery Project
Chris Harman of the Capel Battery Preservation Group provides an update on a project to restore the remnants of the structures at Capel on the north of the Weald.
Surviving Doomsday?: The Cold War Bunker at Gravesend
Victor Smith, 2021, KAS Magazine, Issue 116 (Summer 2021). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Moir Pillbox discovered at Botany Bay
Paul Tritton, 2023, KAS Magazine, Issue 120 (Summer 2023). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Centre for Experimental Military Archaeology at Detling
David Flintham, 2021, KAS Magazine, Issue 116 (Summer 2021). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
The Roman building at Chart Sutton revisited
Deborah Goacher, 2021, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 142. Maidstone: Kent Archeological Society.
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