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Kent Archaeological Society Newsletter 101
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Kent Archaeological Society Newsletter 101
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Kent Archaeological Society Newsletter
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101
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16
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Editor:
Lyn Palmer
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Kent Archaeological Society
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Year of Publication:
2015
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http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/newsletters/
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18 Jan 2016
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A World War II Deep Shelter and Two Concrete Sound Mirrors uncovered at Fan Hole near St Margaret's at Cliffe
Richard Hoskins
4 - 5
In 2012 the National Trust purchased an area of land on the White Cliffs between Dover and St Margaret's, Kent, which includes the site of a system of Second World War shelters known as the Fan Hole Deep Shelter together with two earlier 20th century concrete sound mirrors -- acoustic listening devices that predate the invention of radar. The entire complex was buried in the 1970s. This article gives a brief account of recent work at the site, which has included partial clearance of and repairs to the tunnels as well as locating and uncovering the sound mirrors, along with blast walls and latrine blocks at the tunnel entrances. The National Trust plans to open the complex to guided tours. The tunnels feature a wide range of graffiti, much of which dates to the period of military occupation. Au/LD
Excavations at Oaklands, Lower Road, East Farleigh, Maidstone, 2014
6
Short account of findings by the Maidstone Area Archaeological Group at Oaklands on Lower Road in East Farleigh during investigations in 2014, set in the context of earlier work at the site. Fieldwork concentrated on excavating sections of the Iron Age and Roman ditches which underlay the Roman buildings. The dismembered rear end of a cow was found wedged in the lower half of the Iron Age ditch. The Roman ditch was three metres deep, perhaps too deep for a drainage or boundary ditch, leaving the possibility that it defended a settlement predating the 3rd century buildings. LD
Around Pegwell Bay - a special area
Gordon Taylor
7
Short article highlighting the archaeological interest of an area on the south-western outskirts of Ramsgate on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. Sites excavated here have included a likely Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Pegwell; a multi-period site at Cliffsend Farm; Neolithic and later Bronze Age activity on the line of the East Kent Access Road; and further evidence of prehistoric occupation, a Roman find and Anglo-Saxon burials in the Lord of the Manor area. LD
A Forgotten History of Kent
R Cockett
14 - 15
This article concerns a Victorian book, The Antiquities of Kent, written in manuscript in the second half of the 19th century and currently in the possession of the Kent Archaeological Society. The book is described and an account is given of how it came to be written, against the background of key events in the life of its author, William Dampier. The work is subtitled Churches, Monastic Edifices, Castles, Baronial Halls, Manor Houses, Cromlechs etc, and does not cover minor buildings or history that is not directly related to buildings. Although Dampier's drawings are unreliable in some respects and the book is largely based on secondary sources, it appears that he did visit all of the buildings he wrote about, and the book thus gives an eyewitness account of the state of these buildings in the period 1849 to 1874. LD