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and at the bottom were many bones of animals, a
dark-coloured urn and other fragments of Roman pottery, a small piece of
Samian, an amphora handle, part of a quern; a ‘first brass‘ of
Faustina the elder, many shells, and traces of decayed wood, but none of a
fire. The shaft was continued for another 30 ft. The brick works belong to
Mr. Reeve and are close to the monument and sea mark apparently near
Northdown. Near the same place, but apparently on the surface, a large
bronze brooch, 2 beads, and a few coins were found in 1899—1900. [Arch.
Cant. xi, 126 ; xxiv, proc. p. lix; London Ethnological Soc. (N.S.),
i, p. .i ; hence Arc/i. xlvi, 447.] A pottery-making site
was detected by the late Dr. A. Rowe close by the villa in Tivoli Park
Avenue, with potsherds of late Celtic and of Roman date of all periods. [Journ.
of Roman Studies, xiv, 240.] In 1868, Roman potsherds, worked flints,
and animal bones had been dug out of a shallow pit near St. Peter’s
Church; and with these may be mentioned a large vessel with a handle (a
dolium) found in St. Peter’s parish ; a Samian dish (31) stamped PATERCLINI.OF
found in a grave near Margate in 1868 and now in the British Museum
probably belongs to the burial. Also in the Brit. Mus. is a plate (15/17)
stamped SECVNDVS from Palm Bay Estate.
A lump of bronze from the smelting pot, but not necessarily Roman, was
found in ‘ Twenty’s’ brickfield near Shottenden. [Kent Arch. Soc.’s
Museum Catal.; Arch. Cant. xix, p. 8.] For Hackendown, see
Broadstairs; Dene Valley, see Garlinge; Hundred’s Brickfields, see
Westgate.
MARSBOROUGH.—See Woodnesborough.
MARTIN MILL.—In construction, of Deal and Dover
Railway a number of Roman urns, Samian and other ware were discovered near
Martin’ Mill; some were formerly in possession of Mr. Banks of
Oxney Court. [Vine, Caesar in Kent (1886), 148.]
MEREWORTH.—Ti1es, potsherds, and a 2nd-century coin were
found in 1855—6 near the Castle. [Arch. Journ. xiii, 403.]
MILFORDHOPE—See potteries, p. 132.
MILT0N.—See Sittingbourne, p. 96.
MINSTER-IN-SHEPPEY.—A gold coin of Severus, fallen from the
cliff, was picked up on the shore between Minster and Warden about 1898. [Arch.
Cant. xxv, p. lxxii.] Roman tiles have been noticed in the church
walls. [Payne, Coll. Cant. (1893), p. 100.]
MINSTER-IN-THANET.—A hoard of Roman ‘lesser and larger’
silver coins in an urn was ploughed up about 1630, near the site of a
windmill on King William’s Mount, that is, Mount Pleasant or Telegraph
Hill. More coins, thought to belong to this hoard, were found at later
dates (some apparently about half a mile north-west), one of which was a
‘lesser silver’ of Verus. Lewis, [Hist. of Thanet (1736), p.
27, Plate xv; hence Gough in Camden Brit. (1806), i, 349.] Two
cremation burials, among others, were found about 1923, in the modern
cemetery iiorth of and above Minster; one may be dated to the earlier 2nd
century, the other about 70 A.D. (P1. XXXIV, No. 1). [Antiq. Journ. iv,
22, fig. 1.]
MURSTON.—See Sittingbourne, p. 97. About 1924 a cemetery
was discovered a few hundred yards north of Mere Court on land which was
being excavated for brick earth. Many of the antiquities were smashed, but
it appears that a circle of urns containing oyster shells and small human
bones surrounded a pile of burnt human bones. The following relics were
collected and are now in Rochester Museum :—nine coins, all ‘third
brasses’ (including four of Constantine and one of Allectus), iron
implements, an iron spear-head, bone needles, a seal, fragments of glass,
burnt bones, oyster shells, flue tiles, bricks, and large quantities of
broken. pottery, mostly ‘Upchurch’ ware.’ [Rochester Naturalist, vi,
130, p. 51.]
NEWENDEN.—The suggestion put forward by
Camden, Harris, Hasted and others that Newenden is Anderida is not
supported by any record of the discovery of Roman remains in the
neighbourhood or in the earthwork on Castle Toll, with the exception of a
stone coffin and foundations, recorded by Hasted, which are not
necessarily Roman. [Camden Britannia (1607), p. 246; Harris, Hist.
of Kent (1719), p. 215; Hasted, Hist. of Kent, vii, 164; Arch.
Journ. iv, 207; Arch. Cant. xiii, 488. See also V.C.H. Kent,
i, 442.]
NEWINGTON (by FOLKESTONE).—A Roman camp is said to exist on
the hill behind Beechborough, but no Roman remains have been noticed,
except ‘Roman coins’ vaguely mentioned as found at Newington by Gale
and Stukeley. In 1760, apparently Saxon burials occurred at Milkey Downs
near here. Horse shoes, iron keys and a sickle-shaped instrument, thought
to be Roman, were found with a celt in water-cress beds at ‘The Bogs,’
at the foot of Ward Well Wood. [Stukeley, Itinerary (1724), p. 124;
Gale, Antonine Itinerary (1719), p. 86; Hasted, Hist. of Kent, viii,
199; 408, note; Arch. Cant. xxiv, proc. p. lix.]
NEWINGTON.—Villa at Boxted, see p. 106.. From Boyse’s
Hill were obtained a small black urn, four much-worn coins, a human lower
jaw, pottery fragments (Samian and coarse ware), flue and floor tiles and
bricks. [Rochester Naturalist, 130, vi, 51 ; Ord. Surv. Sheet
lxxiv, N.E.] Many hundreds of urns are said to have been found in
Crockfield; sometimes bones and ashes were found in them and many had
covers. Antiquaries of the late 17th and early 18th centuries
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