chalk which the excavators called a cesspit; (2) at the same time the angle of a building (C) with walling 6 ft. thick was found, but not traced, about 60 ft. to the south; (3) still further on, in Chapel Field, about 80 ft. south of C, a small oblong building was unearthed in 1869. It was not planned or properly measured, but seems to have been some 60 ft. long, and walled with stone, concrete and courses of bonding tiles. It contained two rooms, the larger of which (D) had thicker walls, and below this was a crypt with well—faced walls, entered, perhaps, by a stair between two thin walls in its western face. A remarkable discovery was that of skeletons found entire in the very walls of the larger upper chamber (at EE): smaller discoveries included only Roman coins (one of Pius) and potsherds. The structure was at first taken for an early medieval chapel, but the accounts given of it suggest rather the Roman period; (4) a few feet south of this was a circular structure (F), also never properly measured, but perhaps 20 ft. in diameter, said to have been connected with the oblong buildings by an underground passage. And, lastly (5), indications of buildings were noted between F and the stream.²⁸
   It is plainly impossible to piece together these imperfect items. None of them has been examined by experts; only two have been measured (1 and 2), and the very age of some is disputable (3—5). But it is probable that we have fragments of a Romano-British dwelling-house on the northern part of the site, while the circular building (F) may represent a tomb, or more probably a circular bath. For the rest we must wait till the Folkestone antiquaries excavate the whole area.
   24. FRINDSBURY.—Between Rochester and Chatham dockyard the Medway bends sharply round almost in the form of a V to pass a spit of high ground which runs southwards from near Frindsbury. On this spit and close to Quarry House, Roman remains have been found on various occasions, and especially in 1887—9, during the excavation of chalk for the large cement works in the neighbourhood. Only a small piece—perhaps a corner—of an actual building was found, a wall of rubble and rough stone, with a stone capital built into it, an adjacent floor of rammed chalk, and much debris of flue and other tiles, mortar and coloured wall-plaster, one piece of which is said to have shown a pattern of white flower blossoms on a red ground. Other remains have been met with in four or five rubbish pits of various sizes, one close outside the walling, others in the vicinity. These remains are numerous and varied. For pottery there is much Samian, including an embossed piece of the 1st century, and a piece of imitation Samian with Castor affinities; a piece or two of ordinary Castor; much Upchurch and much common ware; an amphora handle, and the like. For bronze bracelets, pins, rings, and fibulae, and a statuette, 5½ in. high, of a wingless Cupid with loose drapery flung round it and holding in the right hand (or probably in both hands) an object which can only have been a lamp-holder of some sort—perhaps in the form of a flower. It is a decorative object and belongs to a type which originated in Alexandria, though this particular bronze no doubt was imported from Gaul or Italy. For iron, a ploughshare, found 12 ft. deep at the bottom of a pit, unfortunately ill-preserved, a horse’s bit, some cumbrous horseshoes, and part of a lock. Besides, there is bottle glass, many bone and ‘ivory’ pins, a worked deer-horn, a broken jet ornament, and numerous tiles, bearing an "incised" pattern (but the pattern as figured resembles a stamped pattern commonly found; see below, p. 118, no. 28), probably used to decorate some part of a wall or doorway, and in any case not intended, as one writer says, to form a floor. The coins included a British copper coin of the period of Augustus (Evans, p. 529) and
       1 Nero, large brass                       1Aemilian, silvered third brass
       1 Domitian, large brass                 1 Tetricus II, third brass
       1 Trajan, denarius                         1 Probus, silvered third brass
       1 Marcus, large brass                   1 Allectus, third brass
       1 Faustina, large brass                   Several Constantinian, etc., copper^{29
   28}  Arch. Cant. x, 173—177; the foundations appear to have been destroyed when found. Folkestone Museum possesses a large brick, a red earthern urn and a bone needle from the site (Folly Fields). A coin of Faustina was found about the same time as the above remains in another quarter of Folkestone (quoted, Evening Standard, 16 Sept. 1893, from the Architect). More recently, coins of Antonine and Constantine have been noted at Castle Hill, Terlingham Farm, ‘large brass’ coins of Vespasian, Pius, Lucilla and Germanicus, and ‘second brass’ of Crispus and Gratian from Chapel Farm, and lastly, two cremation burials with ‘a pseudo.. Samian cup’ and two fibulae from Radnor Park, west of Julian Road (Arch. Cant. xxxiv, i 156 f.), and not far from the buildings described above are in the Folkestone Museum. See also Topographical. Index s.v.
   ²⁹ Arch. Cant. xvii, 189, xviii, 189 (both with figures of objects found); Proc. Soc. Ant. xii, 162; numerous remains in Rochester Museum, including most of those mentioned above. The published lists of the coins do not quite agree with those actually in the Museum; 6-inch O.S. map, xi, N.E. For similar Cupids, see Arch. lxix, 203—though the Frindsbury Cupid is smaller and is not exactly like any of those mentioned, the resemblance in type and style is sufficient to include it in the same category. it is now in Rochester Museum, The late Mr. G. M. Arnold, of Milton Hall, Gravesend, possessed from this site tiles, some ornamented, plain wall plaster, millstones, some Samian (not early) pottery, a small bowl with illegible stamp and graffiti, bits of curious black ware, iron tools and bones.