Archæologia Cantiana 130

Presents the findings of the Gravesham and Dartford section of Kent County Council's Defence of Kent Project, which aims to gather information on both the history of defences in the county, and the nature and condition of surviving examples. describing and in some cases illustrating surviving examples. PP-B

Describes the discovery of a medieval surveying instrument in a medieval pit, and discusses the instrument. PP-B

Includes link to reports carried out by Wessex Archaeology only.

Describes Bronze Age features found at a multi-period site in Ramsgate, along with a summary of the report on the ceramic evidence and a discussion of the human remains found at the site. PP-B

Report on small-scale excavation at the site, which revealed probable Iron Age occupation, followed by Romano-British occupation, with possible evidence for iron smelting at the site. Roman cremation burials were also found. A military belt plate, and a possible military belt stud, were suggested to be indicative of military or ex-military presence at the site. Mesolithic and Bronze Age flint artefacts were discovered during fieldwalking, and a medieval ditch ran across the site. PP-B

Describes evidence of medieval occupation. PP-B

Architectural history of the medieval building and later additions and redevelopments. PP-B

Excavations revealed traces of Bronze Age activity on a raised gravel island sealed below alluvium. Features included a deposit of cremated bone and burnt flint mound.

Excavation revealed a complex of Bronze Age boundary and enclosure ditches. Residual Neolithic artefacts were found in some features, and the prehistoric landscape was overlain by Romano-British and medieval ditches, and two possible WWII anti-glider ditches. PP-B

Discusses the process of indexing the archive, which comprises documents relating in particular to the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, and of making it available to the public. PP-B

Brief reports on sites recently excavated by the Trust. \r\n\r\nSites in Canterbury: a Late Iron Age Roman site at Augustine House, Rhodaus Town, with late Roman burials and traces of early and later medieval and post-medieval occupation; late prehistoric, Anglo-Saxon, medieval and post-medieval remains at Canterbury Christ Church University Sports Centre; a post-medieval culvert at Longport; post-medieval activity at Kings School, St Augustine's Abbey; Roman, medieval, and post-medieval features at St Mary's Church, Northgate, including part of the Roman town wall; and post-medieval mill buildings at No. 1 Westgate Grove. \r\n\r\nSites outside Canterbury: an extensive multi-period (Mesolithic to medieval) site at Thanet Earth, Monkton; evidence of Middle Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon activity at Ringlemere, Woodnesborough (including Anglo-Saxon inhumations); Late Bronze Age settlement and medieval ditches at Claxfield Farm, Lynsted; nineteenth and twentieth century military installations at Mid Kent College and Lower Lines, Brompton; evidence of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age settlement, and a possible nineteenth century guardhouse at Sally Port, Royal School of Military Engineering, Brompton; and redeposited remains from the 1950s excavations at Lullingstone Roman Villa. PP-B

Brief reports on recently excavated sites: Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and medieval features at Boys Hall Road, Willesborough, Ashford; a Romano-British site at Swanscombe High School; medieval occupation at Capitol Cinema, Tonbridge High Street; extensive Bronze Age, Iron Age, Romano-British, Saxon, and medieval occupation at Foster Road, Ashford; flint-mining and working ranging from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age, and early twentieth-century deposits, at Orpington Hospital, Sevenoaks Road; a Late Bronze Age/Iron Age pit and Roman features at Puma Power Plant, Ash, Sandwich; and a Late Bronze Age/Iron Age pit, early medieval burials (suggested to belong to a transitional period between paganism and Christianity), and Saxo-Norman and later medieval occupation at Holy Trinity School, West Hill, Dartford. \r\n\r\nFurther details on all these site can be found at http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/\r\nPP-B

Analyses place-names and trade routes based on the map. PP-B