In the third period the whole of block (A) was converted back into a house, the fullonica being adapted to baths; the treading trough (14) became the tepidarium with a furnace at the north end, flue pipes being inserted into its sloping floor. The great tank (16) was filled in and divided in two by a wall, the eastern half of which was tiled and made into a frigidarium with a small cold bath (31) added on the west. A furnace was put in at the western end where before there had been steps, and a hot bath was provided on the north side (32). In block (C) the hot rooms were reduced in number, only nos. 26, 27, and 28 remaining; the entrances to nos. 23 and 20 and 21 and 22 were blocked so that no. 20 was now converted into a hall. Block (C) was connected with (A) by a large hail (Block E) with thick walls meant to carry a heavy weight, perhaps an upper floor, with a very wide entrance from the corridor on the south; its walls were decorated internally and its floor cemented. The large tank (17) built across the courtyard in period II was now filled up with clay, its level being thus raised to that of the corridor; it was paved with yellow concrete, and its walls were decorated, and it must therefore have been roofed. Block (B) continued to be a fulling establishment.
   The account is plausible enough, but the details are not always clear. Block (A) plainly once stood by itself, as also did Block (B), alterations being made when the corridor and passage or tank in front of the main gateway was constructed; block (C), which is in line with the new corridor, obviously is of the same date. There is no doubt that these buildings were not all purely domestic; certainly block (B) could not have been, but it is less certain that block (C), which appears always to have contained heated rooms, was not always a bath-building. On the other hand, the type of hypocaust in no. 27 has an industrial character; it resembles those used in tile-kilns where great heat was required. Still there is no part of a villa which necessarily suffers more changes than the bath-building and this block may have served that purpose throughout its history.
The coins and small finds which are recorded are very few The coins include the following:—
      Domitian 2           Gallienus 1             Allectus 1              Constantius II, 1
      Trajan    1            Salonina  1            Constantius I, 1      Decentius 1
      Hadrian  1            Postumus 1           Helena 1                Valentinian 1
      Pius 4                  Tetricus 19            Constantine I, 2      Valens 2
      Philip 2                Claudius II, 2         Crispus 1               Gratian 2
      Trebonianus 1
   Two, therefore, belonged to the first century, six to the second, thirty to the third, and only eleven to the fourth. This is rather unusual, but the list may not be complete.
   (b) Traces of a building have been noted in a field on the hillside 600 yds. north of Green Street Green, a mile south of Watling Street, and about 1½ miles east of the large villa. Here tiles and burnt earth are continually ploughed up, and a house or cottage doubtless awaits exploration.²³
   19. EAST FARLEIGH.—Near Pimp’s Court, otherwise called Penn Court, in East Farleigh parish, a little south of Maidstone, foundations of a building thought to be Roman have been noticed. We may connect with it a cinerary urn, two Samian saucers, one stamped DOVIICCVS (Doeccus), and a Samian cup in the Kent Arch. Soc.’s Museum, said to have been found near Penn Court.²⁴  For a possible second villa see Topographical. Index s.v. Farleigh.
   20 and 21. FARNINGHAM.—(a) Roman remains were noticed in 1866 near the top of a gently rising hill called Farningham Wood, a quarter of a mile from Franks, on the west side of the Darenth valley, about two miles above the Darenth villa. Only a small part was uncovered, but Mr. Roach Smith, who saw it, reported that it appeared to be ‘domestic,’ and the masonry of the best kind, the tiles extremely well made, and the mortar admirably tempered. A lead pipe and common potsherds were found at the time, and a few other remains have been recorded from the vicinity—a fibula and pottery found in making a sewer to Franks, and nine ‘First Brass’ coins—Claudius, Domitian, Trajan, Commodus, two Severus Alexander, Carausius, Constantine, Constantius—found about Farningham.²⁵
   (b) A bath with one side slightly curved, measuring 4½ ft. by 3 ft. 8½ in., with tiled floor, plaster walls, and quarter-round moulding, two rooms and part of a corridor were found near the path from the Bull Hotel to Eynsford in building under the Dartford District Council Housing Scheme in 1925.²⁶  The site was partially excavated by the Dartford Antiquarian Society (Report, October
   ²³  Arch. Cant. xxii, 51; site marked on 6-in. O.S. ix S.E.
   ²⁴  Information from Mr. Kennard as to foundations; Kent Arch. Soc. Mus. Catalogue (Arch. Cant. xix), p. 10, nos. 93—5. The O.S. maps (six inch, xlii S.W.) and name-books mark ‘foundations and coins’ as found a little way from Penn Court, but Mr. Kennard, the authority on whom the O.S. mark depends, tells us that it is an error; the foundations were noticed near Penn Court (as above), and a find of coins, of doubtful age, was made at the spot marked on the map. For traces of another building see the Topographical Index under Farleigh (East).
   ²⁵  C. R. Smith, Gent. Mag. 1866, i, 817; coins and fibula, Arch. Cant. xxii, 51 ; fibula, potsherds, lead piping in Maidstone Museum.
   ²⁶  Journ. of R. Studies, xv, 245, xviii, 208.