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Victoria County History of Kent Vol. 3  1932 - Romano-British Kent - Topographical Index - Page 152

   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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