33a . New House, or Newhouse as it came to be called, was not very attractive in appearance in its later years, as a Victorian front, with cement rendering, had been imposed on its brickwork. The house was investigated at the time of demolition and an interesting account of it, by Mr Michael Drake, appeared in the Newsletter of the Fawkham Archaeological Group for December, 1965. While of the opinion that the house probably belonged to the late 1600s, Mr Drake mentioned that part of an earlier timber frame wall, which might have been from a previous farmhouse, was incorporated in the building.

34.  KAO, Q/RP1 9.

35.  The confusion as to the location of the discovery doubtless arose because, as mentioned in Bancks, op. cit., 50-1, the few houses in the vicinity of Scotgrove were in the Hartley postal district. Mr Philps report on his excavation of the tile-kiln (and on trial holes dug at the time within the earthwork) is in his Excavations in 

West Kent 1960-1970 (1973), 22-—3; references will also be found ibid. for the initial misapprehensions as to the nature of what had been found and for Mr Jessup’s correct identification.

36. The 1967 survey was by the Fawkham and District Historical Society under the direction of the late J.E.L. Caiger and was the subject of a report by Mr J.A. Keen which, with a reproduction of Mr Caiger’s plan, appeared in AC LXXXII, 285- 7. The evidence of the closure of the well comes from a newspaper cutting in the DCL marked ‘June 1852’, in which this was said to have been done ‘many years ago’. The impressive excavation of the site, carried out with the consent and interest of the owners, the Hemesley family, was initiated in April 1972 by the Fawkham and Ash Archaeological Group under Mr Roger Walsh. Reports on the progess of the work have been published in AC LXXXVII, 237-8, LXXXVIII, 220, LXXXIX, 218 and XCII, 249.
Mr E.P. Connell is the director of excavations.