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Reports on excavations carried out in the area can be found in volumes of
the Archceologia
Cantiana. The most famous were carried out in the field known as
The Vineyard where a fine example of a Roman Villa
was unearthed by George Dowker on July 22, 1881. The building was
re-excavated by
Frank Jenkins, M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A. in 1966.
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Artifacts dating from 2400BC
(Neolithic) through to 18/1900AD were found in a Drainage Trench
dug in 1955 |
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Dowker (Arch. Cant., xiv -1882)
mentions other finds including
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"... a roadway of faggots, leading across the Marsh to Little
Briton, and constituting part of the road from Richborough to Canterbury"
discovered by Mr. J. B. Sheppard. |
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A "Saxon burial-place" beside the
Wingham to Staple road at Witherden Hall which was opened by
Lord Londesborough and Mr. Ackerman. |
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A "Roman burial-place" discovered at Dearson
by Dowker himself and described in Archceologia Cantiana xii |
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"...a chest or coffin of large thick stones
joined together, and covered with one on the top." (Hasted, History of Kent, vol iii., p. 700) This was struck
by a plough in the Vineyard in 1710 and contained some black ashes. |
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