armour, and a battle axe, but this seems doubtful. [Stukeley, Letters and Diaries (Surtees Soc. 1883); ii 23! ; Gough in Camden Britannia (1806), i, 351.] A light yellow vessel with a recurved lip stamped ? NIMI (copy of Samian), found on the Westwell Downs, may come from the same find. [C. R. Smith, Coll. Ant. vii (1880), 10.] A globular jar of coarse grey ware, with recurved rim, containing burnt human bones, was found on Westwell Downs in 1818. [Maidstone Mus. Inf. from Mr. N. C. Cook.] A small bronze brooch from Westwell Downs in the British Museum.
   EBBSFLEET (Northfleet).—See Springhead, pp. 90—93.
   EBBSFLEET (Thanet).—An early bronze fibula, made in one piece, was found about 1890. [Canterbury Museum.].
   ECCLES.—The following discoveries have been made in the neighbourhood of the village of Eccles:— (1) Roman foundations were met with in 1919, 200 yds. south of Rose Cottage (¾ mile west of Eccles), in digging postholes (see Villas, p. 104, No. 3). (2) Traces of buildings and a burial in a disused gault pit at the rear of the (now ruined) West Kent Cement Co.’s Works south-west of Eccles (ibid). (3) A section of a Roman road was noticed in the gault pit referred to above, in 1911 (see Aylesford, p. 145). (4) A small Roman house midway between Burham New Church and Burham Cement Works, and about a mile north-east of the Eccles site (see Villas, p. 109). (5) About ½ mile north-west of the small house an underground chamber said to be a temple dedicated to Mithras (see p. 109). (6) Many Roman burials were found at Burham on the road to Eccles (see Burham). (7) In the Kent Arch. Soc. Mus. are several pots from burials found in 1867 in Furness Brickfield on Rowe Place Farm (Inf. from Mr. Elgar). The district around Eccles seems to have been one of the small centres of agricultural activity that are a feature of the Medway Valley and North Kent. Roman remains are indeed plentiful throughout the region bounded on the east by the Roman road running from Rochester towards Maidstone and the Weald, and on the west by the Medway, but a river crossing from Eccles to New Hythe may account for the focus of population at. this particular point. It. is noteworthy that the line of the road mentioned above (3) points directly across the river to New Hythe, where it is continued, past the site of a Roman cemetery, by a deeply sunken road, to join the probable Roman road from Maidstone towards Wrotham at Larkfield; but it must not be forgotten that the river banks here, being of gault clay, would nowhere offer a site for a ford such as is found at Aylesford. The remains noted by Beale Poste indicate rather the presence of a village; an examination of a series of air-photographs of the site has brought to notice several suspicious markings, which should be investigated by the spade.
   EDENBRIDGE.—In 1840, 20 yds. from the site of the old manor house, Skeynes, several urns containing calcined bones were found 1½ ft. below the surface. Eight urns were carefully arranged, 2 ft. apart, in a line running east and west. [Arch, xxviii, 462.] See also roads, p. 141
   ELHAM.—A silver coin of Faustina and a large brass of Trajan were found about 1896, beneath the floor of the church. A silver coin of Hadrian was dug up in the vicarage garden, and several others are said to have occurred in the parish. [Arch. Cant. x, 46.]
   ELTHAM.—Shaft in chalk. No Roman remains. [Arch. Cant. xii, pp. xlvi, 431.] In 1913 two burial urns containing bones, a bowl, and a one-handled flagon were found on the Corbett Estate; the urns were of black pottery, with wide mouth and everted rim, and the flagon was of reddish ware. Some of the pottery is in Eltham Free Library. Similar urns were found in 1802 in Lord Dartmouth’s garden at Blackheath (q.v.), and in 1811 others were found at Blendon Hall, Bexley (q.v.). [Daily Graphic, 7 Aug. 1913.]
   ERITH—A silver coin of Honorius was found with a Roman brick near Erith, presumably. about 1753: coins are also said to have been turned up in High Street, and Roman materials have been noticed in the walls of the church. Pieces of Roman pottery, with mortar, tiles, rubbish and piles, were dug out in building Crossness Sewage Works in Erith Marshes about 1865, about 9 ft. below the surface, on a layer of peat, ‘which showed unmistakably that hazel and birches were growing on it, while moss, etc., covered the surface. The bones of the "Roman" ox and large quantities of native oyster and snail shells lay in the peat. I saw a broken cinerary urn from here which when found contained bones, as the workman told me’ [F. C. J. Spurrell, in Arch. Journ. xlii (1885), 275], and Mr. Spurrell marks on his map Roman remains near Brown’s Oil and Guano Works at Great Breach, on the river side of the embankment. [Soc. Ant. MS. Minutes, 12 April, 1753; Arch. Cant. xviii, 313; Harris, Parish of Erith in Anc. and Modern Times (1885), pp. 3, 47; Arch. Journ. xlii, 302.]
   EWELL (near FAVERSHAM).—Building, see Faversham, p. 94.
   FARLEIGH (EAST).—Building, see p. 113. At Gallants Court, on the east side of Gallants Lane, 350 yds. south of Gallants Farm, overlooking the Medway, south-west of East Farleigh, a cemetery was found in December, 1845. One deposit consisted of a black globular urn containing ashes, and an ornamented white bronzed Castor vessel 3½ in. high, together with fragments of 3 or 4