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Footnotes to Chapter I
1. The nature and. origin of the clay-with-flints, as also of the
Brown Flint Drift, are considered in Henry Dewey, C.E.N. Broomhead, C.P.
Chatwin & M.G. Dines, The Geology of the Country around Dartford
(1924), 86-89
2. See further Sir Edward Harrison, Harrison of Ightham
(1924) and R.F. Jessup, The Archaeology of Kent (1931).
3. In The Report of the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, Part 85
Kent (1943)
4. G.M. Garrad, A Survey of the Agriculture of Kent (1954),
99. Chapter VIII of this book (95 ff) has a fascinating
account of hop-growing in Kent.
5. Recorded in Edward Cresy’s Notes on Horton Kirby, publ.
in Transactions of the Dartford District Antiquarian Society, No. II
(1932). A trade in bavins continued into relatively modern times. Some
years ago, an aged local inhabitant who had gone as a boy in 1893 to live
at Church Down Farm on the Fawkham Valley road told me how, in his young
days, be had seen many a cartload of bavins transported along that road by
Joshua Hollands of the Green Farm at Fawkham Green; they were destined for
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6. Garrad, op. cit.., 100.
7. Grant of land in Fawkham, 28 Edw. I, reproduced in AC IX, 301.
8. See further an Article, The Design of Oast-Houses, by Peter E.
Locke, in Country Life, 17 September 1953. I have followed Mr Locke
in attributing John Read to Regent’s Circus (now Oxford Circus), but his
principal place of abode was at Horsmonden, where he died in 1847 at the
age of eighty-seven.
S.G. McRae and C.P. Burnham, The Rural Landscape of
Kent (1973), 193, mentions an early example of a circular oast, built
at Court Lodge Farm, Brook, in 1815. See also the second part of Anthony
Cronk’s paper on Oasts in Kent and East Sussex in AC XCV, esp. at
244-5.
9. For details of the Old Kent Plough and its history, see Garrad, op.
cit., 124-5. Old Kent Ploughs are still sometimes to be fount in
Kentish barns and one is customarily included in the collection of old
farm implements on view at the Kent Agricultural Society’s annual Show
at Detling. Another, illustrated in Mr Garrad’s book, is at the Science
Museum, South Kensington. |