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Victoria County History of Kent Vol. 3  1932 - Romano-British Kent - Topographical Index - Page 160

of a larger house, and a bath-house, half a mile south on the Brisling Stream at Boughton Monchelsea (p. 105). [C. T. Smythe’s account printed in Arch. Cant. xv, 81—88. At pp 77—80, account of the objects from the cemetery now in the Maidstone Museum : these are 3 tiles, 9 in. square, square glass bottles, thin glass bottles, neck of pale blue glass decanter, blue glass saucer and much glass, thick and thin, 4 bronze jugs (2 perhaps from Sutton Valence), 2 huge funeral urns, 3 earthen jugs and a small Castor urn and red saucer, stamped O F M R Ó. See also Arch. Cant. xxiv, p. 4. The site is marked on the O.S. 6-inch Sheet No. xlii, S.E. See also Arch. Cant. x, 166, xv, 74, 88; Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. ii, 86; Arch. Journ. xx, 392; cf. Anna/es de la Soc. Arch. de Namur III, 1853, 228, for similar discoveries, and also see under Sutton Valence, Barming and Keston, p.119, etc., for similar monuments and enclosures.]
   LOWER HALSTOW.—See Halstow.
   LUDDESDOWN.—Small Castor urn found in Henley Wood, half a mile north-west of Luddesdown. Another urn is said to have been found in a square earthwork in this wood. Just a little north, an urn containing coins was also thought to have been found in a fruit plantation between Little Buckland and the railway cutting, about 1850, but the evidence for the latter seems very uncertain. [Arch. Cant. xxiv, proc. p. lii.] See also p. 99.
   LULLINGST0NE.—Building, see p. 121.
   LUTON (near CHATHAM).—Foundations of a large building, many bones, and Samian cups and paterae were dug up at Pheasant Row in excavations for brick earth in a narrow valley about 100 yds. west of Luton Road and Christ Church and about 400 yds. south of Watling Street, in 1869, and the few years previously. Also there were found, a square glass bottle 6¼ in. high; part of a fluted glass bowl, 2¾ in. high and 5 in. diameter; a bronze jug. 7 in. high and 7½ in. diameter at its widest part; a shallow bronze bowl, 13 in. diameter and 3 in. high, stamped inside AFRICAN...; part of a bronze hinge 4¼ in. long; an iron lamp 4½ in. diameter with part of a handle; and a brass ring broken from an iron rod; 2 pieces of iron 16 in. long, one perhaps a spatula; an embossed Samian patera 6½ in. diameter; a plain one of the same diameter; an embossed cup 5¼ in. diameter and 2 in. high; and a plain one 3¾ in. diameter and 1¼ in. high, all unstamped. Wickham, [Arch. Cant. ix, 174—5, Plate; Arch. Journ. xxxv, 70, reference to inscribed bowl in Eph. Ep. ix, 131 2a. Both it and the jug are now in the British Museum— see R.-B. Guide, 1922, p. 86.] A burial, consisting of a large buff-coloured two-handled vessel and a flesh-coloured urn, was found in Gransden’s Brickfields, 30 yds. south of the road from Luton to Bredhurst.[ Arch. Cant. xxv, proc. p. lx.] What appear to be burials in graves cut in the chalk were found in 1891 when the glacis of the fort was being constructed. Near by was a cremation burial, the calcined bones being placed in an urn of thick coarse pottery. [Soc. Antiq. (2nd ser.), xiv, 29.] See also Gillingham and Chatham.
   LYMINGE.—Building, see p. 121.
   LYMPNE.—Fort, see p. 55.
   MAIDSTONE.—Settlement, see p. 98.
   MALLING, EAST.—The remains said to have been found at the Hermitage in this parish seem to have been confused with those from the chapel of St. Laurence-de-Longsole which stood in Hermitage Wood between Barming and Allington. See Allington and Barming. There are traces of Roman building-material in the church.
   MALLING, WEST.—A group of pottery was found half way between the carriage entrance to Malling House and St. Leonard’s tower in 1892 in laying a gas main; it consisted of two Upchurch urns containing calcined bones, the smaller having a Samian saucer inverted over it, and a few paces away, fragments and a handle of another vessel. The saucer (early form of Drag. 18) and the small black urn with beaded rim which it covered, are in Maidstone Museum. [Arch. Cant. xxi, proc. p. lvi; Folkestone Observer, 17 Sept. 1892.] In the garden of Mailing Abbey, Roman coins, including one of Constantine, were dug up with others of much later date, together with a small gold ring which may or may not be Roman. [Gough’s Tours, V, folio 188, Bodleian MSS.] In the British Museum is a small bronze brooch of late 2nd-century date. For a piece of road here, see p. 141.
   MARGATE.—For villa, see p. 121. A coin of Helena was picked up under the cliffs near the town in 1791. [Cozen, Tour through the Isle of Thanet (1793), pl. i, fig. 2.] Several burials, apparently by inhumation, were found in digging the foundations of the Charity School in 1791. The graves were cut out of the chalk, lying north and south, about 2 ft. below the surface; in one was a coin of Probus, another of Maximian, and two more of Helena and Pupienus, and a sword and scabbard. In the following year a small urn with ashes was found in excavations made for a cellar in the next house. [bid. p. 25, pl. i, 23; hence Hasted, Hist. of Kent, x, 331; Brayley and Britton, Beauties of Engl. viii, 963, note; Gents. Mag. (1791), i, 270; Annual Registsr, 1791 (March).] In 1876, while digging for brick earth, a hole 12 ft. deep was found leading to an oven-shaped cavern cut in the chalk. It was full of flint boulders,

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