DEAL.—Traces of occupation extending
over an area of 100 square yds. have been observed by Mr. Gilbert Elliott
in the park facing his house, Hull Place, Sholden. [Journ. of R.
Studies, xviii, 209.] Two or three hoards of coins have been found
near Deal. The first, an urn containing silver coins thought to be Roman,
was dug up in a field near Deal about 1765. The second, concerning
which most is known, was found in 1832in the sandhills to the north of
Deal and near Sandown: Castle. By one writer it is said to have consisted
of some 2,000 third-century and apparently ’3rd brass’ coins. Of
these, 125 coins dating from 200—270 A.D. came into the
collection of Mr. Rolfe of Sandwich. With them were some brooches, Samian
ware (one piece stamped SEVERIANVS),
and sherds of coarser pottery. Later excavations at the same spot in 1848
yielded much pottery and some brooches, a pair of handmills, a large stone
with holes drilled in it and much worn—probably an anchor—and
part of a skeleton. The ground above was stained black, as though
indicating a landslip. All along these sandhills many potsherds, and
occasionally broken tiles, are found. [C. R. Smith MS. in Exeter Museum
Library; Numis. Chron. i (1838—9), 259, and Arch. Cant. xiv,
368; xxiv, 112; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. iii (1848), 329; Gents
Mag. 1833, i, 161; Sir John Evans Coll; hence G. B. Gattie, Memorials
of Goodwins (1890), 87.] Coins were found in the chalk on the beach.
[B. Poste, Brit. Ant. 282.] About 1834, an urn containing 25 brass
coins, including one Carausius, was found in a field near Upper Deal. This
may be identical with the hoard of 1832, but more probably not; S.
Pritchard, in his Hist. of Deal (1864), 265, says that in 1830 two
urns containing Roman coins were found in the sandhills. [Gents Mag. 1834,
i, 96.] Coins of Tacitus were found under the sandbank, which was
therefore thought to be artificial, but this argument is too weak to be
satisfactory. [Wright, Wanderings of an Antiquary (1859), p.
i 05.] In 1913, Roman pottery was found in a stone pit above Knight’s
Bottom. [Arch. Cant. xxxi, 283.] In the British Museum is a
broken-handled mirror of white bronze. See also Walmer, Thanet and Ripple.
DENGE WOOD, PETHAM.—See Industries, p. 128.
DEPTFORD.—The head of Janus, said by Hasted to have been
found in 1690 near St. Thomas’s Watering Place here, really came from
the quay of that name between Lambeth and Southwark. [Harris, Hist. of
Kent (1719), i, 3; Horsley, Britannia Romana (1732), 343;
Hasted, Hist. Kent (1778), i, 345.] Roman bronze lamp found
in Union Street (now Albury Street) about 1878 (P1. xxv). mi. from Mr. W.
M. Newton to Prof. Haverfield.]
DETLING.—Several brown and black urns were found a quarter
of a mile from the foot of the hill in this parish in 1830-31, apparently
in excavations for a new parsonage. [Arch. xxx,. 536.] In
the Maidstone Museum is some Belgic ware and two brooches (one with a
pierced sheath and probably of early date) that were also found in 1831,
and are perhaps part of the same find. [Brief historic and descriptive
account of Maidstone (1834), p. 6g.]
DODDINGTON.—A gold ‘solidus’ of Valentinian II was
found in a small piece of clay, at a depth of 2 ft., in a hole filled with
flints (diameter 18 in.) in Dully Wood, late in 1897. Two years later, a
second one was found near the same place. [Arch. Cant. xxiii, 21;
xxv, proc. p. lxvi, and Proc. Soc. Antiq. xviii, 43.]
DOVER.—Fort, see pp. 42 ff.
DUNGENESS.—A gold ring of Probus was washed up on the coast
near Dungeness: it was full of little holes, probably the result of sea
action. [Soc. of Antiq. MS. Minutes, 21 Feb. 1765; hence Gough in Camden Britannia
(1806), i, 326.]
DYMCHURCH POTTERIES.—See p. 129 if. A red ware jug of 3rd
century type was found on the site of the sea wall in 1844. A Samian bowl
(46), and a dish (3i), both mid-2nd-century types, are in the British
Museum.
EASTRY.—The graves found between Eastry
Cross and Buttsole are Saxon and not Roman. [W. F. Shaw, Liber
Estriee (1870), pp. 3, 4 ; 6-in. Ord. Surv. sheet xlviii, S.W.] A
plated coin of Verus was found near here. [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. iv,
382.] A Samian saucer with 2 small handles stamped RIGA
FEC and ruder ware, found at Updown, apparently near Eastry, are in
the Maidstone Museum EAST PECKHAM.—See Hadlow.
EAST STUDDAL.—A cremation burial with two Samian saucers
and two small vases was found between Studdal and Maidensole Farm along
the Dover to Richborough road about 1908. [Arch. Cant. xxix,
lxxxiii.] More Samian pottery was found three years previously a little to
the north, perhaps that described under Eastry. The Samian bowl (37) face
urn, and light-red, one-handled jug, now in the British Museum, probably
come from one of these burials.
EASTWELL.—In a bank at the south-west corner of Eastwell
Park, apparently just within the parish of Westwell, and quite close to
the site of Beamstone Lawn, remains of burials were burrowed up by
rabbits, and later, excavations were made by Lord Winchilsea about 1721.
They consisted of fragments of urns of various colours, bits of a Samian
saucer, bones of men and animals, deer horns, large oblong beads, much
charcoal, and several bits of iron, thought to be remains of
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