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Victoria County History of Kent Vol. 3  1932 - Romano-British Kent - Topographical Index - Page 150

each end (?), provenance unrecorded. [Payne, Coll. Cant. (1893), p. 87; Arch. Journ. xxxvi, 183.] In Maidstone Museum is a piece of a carinated cup and a fragment of a Samian bowl, form 29. See also Gillingham and Luton.
   CHATTENDEN.—Five cremation burials were found in 1907 and subsequently, near the west entrance to Lodge Hill Powder Magazines, 200 yds. east of Chattenden Lane. With them was much Samian now in the Rochester Museum, probably late first or early second century. (P1. xxxii.) [Arch. Cant. xxviii, xcv (P1. II), xxix, lxxix.]
   CHETNEY HILL.—Potteries, see p. 132.
   CHILHAM.—In pulling down the old castle and digging the foundations of the new one about 1610, traces were noted of an older building with ‘culinary vessels’ in or near it at a great depth, which were thought to be Roman. Philipot, Villare Cantianum (1659), 117 ; hence Hasted, op. cit. vii, 264, etc.] Courses of squared pieces of chalk and many of the stones in the present house have been thought to be Roman, and there are also one or two fragments of Roman bricks. But a tunnel driven through the mound under the ancient keep by a recent owner failed to reveal any trace of Roman age. It is best therefore not to assign a Roman date to these remains. [Arch Cant vii, proc lii, liii, Antiq Journ viii, 350] The large earthwork in Shillingheld Wood was also held to be Roman, and foundations of walls, one of flint and mortar 3 ft. thick, with fragments of tiles and bricks, and coins and urns, were said to have been found. Lastly, there is a tradition that Roman potsherds with bits of leather in the shape of money were found in Round Wood. But it seems as unlikely that the earthwork is Roman, or that the finds were Roman, as that the tumulus called ‘Julaber’s Grave’ is the grave of Caesar’s tribune, Quintus Laberius Durus, as first suggested by Camden (Britannia, 1587 ed. p. 201). The tumulus is actually a long barrow. [Gale, Itin. (1709), p. 86; Harris, Hist. ef Kent (1719), i, 76, 369; Gem’s Mag. 1794, ii, 909; 1796, i, 473; hence Hasted, Hist. Kent, vii, 264, 126, and Gough in Camden Britannia (1806), i, 353; and Arch,. li, 455. For ‘Julaber’s Grave’ see Arch. xliii, 176, note, and for the whole question of Caesar’s campaigns in Kent, T. Rice Holmes, Ancient Britain (1907), p. 682 and passim.]
   CHILLENDEN.—A brass coin of Carausius was found here. A gold coin of Allectus weighing 67 grains (exergue ML) is recorded from Chittenden, which is perhaps a mistake for Chillenden. [C. R. Smith, Collect. Antiq. v, 154, 156, P1. XVII, fig. 7. [Numis. Chron. viii (new ser.) (1868), 231.]
   CHISLEHURST.—In a bottle-shaped cavern opened in digging chalk pits on the south side of Camden Park, were British or Romano-British potsherds, a small Samian vessel stamped VIC . . ., a few flint knives and arrow-heads, and some tool-cut blocks of chalk. The well-known Chislehurst Caves are sometimes said to be Roman chalk mines, but there is no definite evidence of the date of the galleries, which to a large extent were worked as chalk quarries during the 18th and 19th centuries. [Arch. Cant. i, 137; xviii, 307; Arch. Journ. xxvi, 294; xxxviii, 407; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. new ser. x, 87ff, xiii, 254f, xiv, 87f; Jessup, Arch. Kent (1930), p. 163..] For other caverns, see Crayford and Greenhithe.
   CHISLET.—A few fragments of Roman pottery are in the Kent Arch~eologica1 Society’s Museum at Maidstone.
   CLIFFE-AT-HOO.—A cemetery was found in digging mud for the Nine Elms Cement Works about 1909 in the marshes, 4 ft. from the surface, close to the river wall opposite East Tilbury, 3 miles from Cliffe. The account mentions several skeletons and a large number of pots (P1. xxxiii) of all kinds and dating apparently from the late-first to the third century, including the stamp DIICMVSM. The most notable object was a bronze patella decorated in relief, now in Rochester Museum. [Arch. Cant. xxix, lxxvi.] See also Higham, Hoo, Shorne and Stoke.
   COBHAM.—In grubbing a tree root near Brewer’s Gate in Cobham Park in 1883, workmen came upon an earthen pot containing a hoard of some 850 ‘2nd and 3rd brass’ coins dating from Constantine I to Decentius, and buried apparently about 353 A.D. [Arch. Cant. xv, 321, proc. p. xlvi; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xl, 213; Num. Chron. 3rd series (1885), vii, 108.] There is also a record of the discovery in 1825 of ‘at least three waggon loads of human bones, mingled with leather, many metal celts, spear-heads, and armour’ in an entrenchment at Claylane Wood on Wading Street, but not Roman. [Dunkin, Mem. of Springhead (1848 ed), p. 113.]
   COLDRED.—Urns and burnt bones—presumably Roman—were found about 1770 or 1780 in a plantation ¼ mile north-east of the earthwork near the church. [Hasted, Hist. Kent (1799), iv, 12; hence Brayley and Britton, Beauties of England (1808), viii, 1072.] Urns were also found in Waldershare Park. [Hasted, op. cit. v, 386.]
   COOLING.—Two coins are recorded from here, viz., a denarius of Gordian III and Tranquillina. [Num. Chron. vii, 1867, proc. p. 7.] Near the borders of the marsh at Bromhey Farm, a large area of extremely loose soil was discovered containing material typical of the ‘Red Hills’ sites

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