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Victoria County History of Kent Vol. 3  1932 - Romano-British Kent - Topographical Index - Page 156

   GUSTON.—See St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe.
   HADLOW.—In gravel pits at Hawfield, Hadlow Common, several holes were opened about 2 ft. or 3 ft. below the surface; the sides were baked and the holes filled with charred matter, rude and coarse potsherds, clay net-sinkers, bits of a millstone, an iron sickle-shaped instrument, and many fragments of Samian and Castor ware. [Arch. Cant. xxi, proc. p. lii; Proc. Soc. Antiq. xv, 42.] In 1896, a two-handled urn was dredged, it is said, from the Medway between Hadlow and East Wickham, probably a mistake for East Peckham. in the same year, two urns containing charcoal and burnt bones were dug up in Hadlow cemetery, but whether Roman or not, is not stated. [Arch. Cant. xxii, proc. p. lviii.] Pottery and coins were found in Fairfield Farm 1898—1908. [Inf. from Mr. H. J. Elgar.]
   HALLING.—In Upper Hailing, south of the lane connecting the Pilgrims’ Way with Lower Hailing at Holborough, a cemetery was found by chalk diggers at a depth of 4 ft. There were ten skeletons lying north and south, and all, except one, face downwards; at their feet were four black urns, a large reddish urn, two Samian cups, the neck of a large flagon with handle, two black saucers, and some iron nails. The large urn contained bones of a bird and an animal, human hair, and minute stems of flowers or herbs. [G. Payne, Coll. Cant. (1893), 136.] A short distance from this site, on the edge of Lee’s Great Quarry, and 30 yds. south-west of Clement’s Farm buildings, burials were again found in 1926. The bones of five people were accompanied by a small flask of hard buff pottery, and a bowl of fumed greyish-black clay imitating Samian (form 45), both of which are perhaps late second century. There were also sherds of coarse, gritty, red clay, probably pre-Roman. [Arch. Cant. xxxviii, 184, fig.] A skeleton, with two urns of Upchurch ware, was found in a grave cut in the chalk at Trechmann’s (Whornes Place) Quarry. [Arch. Cant. xxv, proc. p. lxviii.] An indented beaker of Upchurch ware has been found in the same quarry. [Rochester Museum.] See also Cuxton and Snodland (Holborough barrow).
   HALSTEAD.—Roman floor and roof tiles and potsherds found in 1929 in a garden near Halstead. [Arch. Cant. xli, p. xlviii.]
   HALSTOW, HIGH.—A large Roman urn was found 6 ft. below the surface when cutting a ditch in the marsh, about 20 yds. from the river wall to the south-east of Egypt Bay. It resembled some from Upchurch and suggested the existence of a pottery to Mr. Geo. Payne. [Arch. Cant. xxv, p. lxv.]
   HALSTOW, LOWER.—Building near the church, see p. 117. Building in Earth Pit Fields, Boxted, see pp.106, 117. Potteries in marshes, see p. 132. There is much Roman material in the fabric of the church. A small bronze phalera given by Mr. J. P. T. Burchell is in the British Museum.
   HARBLEDOWN.—See Roads, p. 136.
   HARTLEY.—Villa, see p. 117.
   HARTLIP.—Villa in Danefield, see p. I 17.
   HARRIETSHAM.—An Upchurch urn, 9˝ in. high, ornamented with dot pattern, containing bones, and also a red cinerary urn, with 2 handles, and 9 in. high, were found in the churchyard. (Kent Arch. Soc. Museum.) Brass coins of Constantine I were found at Woodlands in 1927. [Inf. from Mr. H. J. Elgar.]
   HARTY, ISLE OF.—Building, see p. 118. For lime-kiln, see p. 118. Potsherds have also been found in Neat’s Court and Queenborough Marshes. [Arch. Journ. xlii, 279.] And for other finds in Sheppey see Minster-in-Sheppey and Warden.
   HAYES.—Two buildings, see p. 119.
   HERNE BAY.—See Pudding-Pan Rock.
   HIGHAM.—For potteries, see p.130. A burial was found in Oct., 1849, in a field 200 yds. from the church, east of the road to Higham Ferry, including burial urns with burnt bones, domestic utensils and embossed Samian. [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. iv (1849), 393—4; hence Arch. Cant. xi (1877), 114.] A second burial was found quite near, 100 yds. south of the church and 107 yds. west of the road leading to the causeway across the marshes and beneath the road to the Sun Inn. It consisted of a skeleton with two small vases on the right side and an Upchurch dish. Iron nails were picked up on both sides of the skull in 1902. [Arch. Cant. xxv, proc. p. lxii.] A coin of Allectus was found in 1851. [C. R. Smith, Coll. Ant. vi, 261, vii, 227.] See also Shorne.
   HOLBOROUGH.—See Hailing and Snodland.
   HOLWOOD.—Villa and a cemetery, see p. 119. The earthwork called Caesar’s Camp in Holwood Park (6-inch O.S. Map, Sheet xvi, S.W.), is doubtless pre-Roman and cannot therefore be identified with the Itinerary Station Noviomagus; there are no records of discoveries within it. [Arch. Cant. xiii, 1; V.C.H. Kent I, 398. For Noviomagus, see pp. 61, 93.] See also Keston.
   HOO.—An aureus of Avitus (VICTORIA AVGGG, EX CONOB) is recorded as having been found here by C R. Smith in Num Chron. vii, 1867, proc. p. 7.

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