Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 140, 2019
Contents
- The Roman Villa at Minster in Thanet. Part 12: Quernstones and Millstones. By Ruth Shaffrey1
- ‘Devotion to the uncovering and recording of a nation’s language and a city’s antiquities’: the life of William Somner of Canterbury (1606-1669). Part I. By David Wright13
- An unusual pit and other nearby prehistoric finds at Woodnesborough. By Keith Parfitt37
- Elizabethan and early Stuart Thanet: the Expansion of Education Provision and its impact on literacy levels. By Margaret Bolton53
- Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age site on the banks of the Goresend Creek, Minnis Bay, Birchington. By Trevor and Vera Gibbons72
- The Merchant Fleet and Ship-Board Community of Kent, c.1565-c.1580. By Craig L. Lambert and Gary P. Baker89
- Later Prehistoric settlement and ceramics from the Downland fringes at New Thanington, Canterbury. By Graeme Clarke and Matthew Brudenell111
- Playing the Passion in late fifteenth-century New Romney: the Playwardens’ Account Fragment. By James Gibson† and Sheila Sweetinburgh124
- The Hive of Activity at the ‘Glasshouse’ 1585-7 – a Window on the Development of Knole. By Stephen Draper137
- The Kentish Demonym – or, the Demonym of Kent. By James Lloyd155
- Alphanumeric Graffiti at Rochester Cathedral. By Dan Graham and Jacob H. Scott181
- Dorothy Johnston of Appledore: her wartime experiences and gift of a stretch of the Royal Military Canal to the National Trust. By Felicity Stimpson200
- Bailiffs and Canterbury’s Firma Burgi in the thirteenth century. By John H. Williams214
- The Lead Font at the Church of St Margaret, Wychling. By Paula Jardine-Rose233
- A key figure among Kent’s fifteenth-century gentry: Sir John Fogge’s career and his motivations for rebuilding St Mary’s Church, Ashford. By Gillian Draper250
- A re-examination of the late nineteenth-century Palaeolithic finds in the Upper Cray area, Bromley. By Frank R. Beresford269
- Archaeological investigations at New Haine Road, Westwood, Broadstairs: further observations of a prehistoric agricultural landscape on the Isle of Thanet. By Tania Wilson285
- The military pontoon bridge between Gravesend and Tilbury during the Great War. By Victor Smith298
Research and Discoveries
- Mesolithic geoarchaeological investigations in the outer Thames Estuary309
- Excavations at Church Field Roman Villa, Otford, possibly a site of very early Christian worship309
- A map drawn by Christopher Saxton of the estate owned by Henry Saker of Faversham311
- An exceptional late eighteenth-century assemblage from Faversham315
Reviews
- John Pearce and Jake Weekes (eds). Death as a Process: The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral320
- Simon Elliott. Ragstone to Riches: Imperial Estates, metalla and the Roman Military in the South East of Britain during the Occupation327
- Alison Hicks and Mark Houliston. Within the Walls: The Developing Town c. AD 750-1325, Canterbury Whitefriars Excavations 1999-2004327
- Patricia Reid, Duncan Harrington and Michael Fronsdorff. Faversham in the Making. The Early Years: The Ice Age until AD 1550329
- Sir John Lushington Bt. From Men of Kent to Men of the World: A History of the Lushington Family in the Eighteenth Century330
- Maureen P. Green. The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill332
- Anne Carwardine. Disgusted Ladies. The women of Tunbridge Wells who fought for the right to vote334
- Julian Wilson. Revolutionary Tunbridge Wells. The remarkable role of Tunbridge Wells in the development of revolutionary politics in Britain 1884-1919335
- Paul Tritton. Searching for Ebony. A long-lost village on an inland island336
- George Frampton. Discordant Comicals. The Hooden Horse of East Kent336