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all record discoveries, but most of the objects must
have been distributed. The earliest recorder, the scholar, Meric Casaubon,
figures a 2nd-century indented Castor urn, a Samian dish stamped COCCILLI.M,
and an urn inscribed apparently in graffiti ‘ Severianus pater d(at)
ola(m) I . .filia(e)’, a Samian cup
of form 33, and mentions the stamps PRISCLAN,
FVL.LINVS. Roger Gale refers to them, but does not distinguish the
pottery from some found at Blackheath (q.v.) [Meric Casaubon in Translation
of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (1634), notes pp. 31—36;
Philipot, Villare Cantium (1659), p. 249; Burton, Anton. Itin. (1658),
p. 180; Gale’s Essay in Hearne’s ed. of Leland Itin. (1711),
vi, 103 ; Battely, Antiq. Rutup. (1745), 107 ; Hasted
(1782), ii, 562; Hasted, Hist. Kent, vi, 43; Payne, Coll.
Cant. 59.]
NEWNHAM.—The burials recorded from Champion Court
appear probably to be Saxon. [Reliq xiii (1872), 145; Payne,
Coll. Cant. (1893), p. 167.]
NORTHDOWN.—See Margate.
NORTHFLEET.—Building, see pp. 122, 128. The late Mr. G. M.
Arnold had in his collection coarse pottery, fragments of Samian, iron
tools and bones washed out of the Saltings near Hope Point in 1894—5,
coins from Perry Street and Durndale Farm, and a few bronze objects found
near the Half Moon Inn on the foreshore. An empty tile cist was found at
Northumberland Bottom on Watling Street during road—widening operations.
[Arch. Cant. xl, 29; above p. 137.] See also Springhead, p. 90, and
Swanscombe, p. 125.
NORTH FORELAND.—A mortarium with broad overhanging rim and
stamped on both sides of the spout ‘C.
ATISIVS GRATVS’ was dragged up by a trawler in 12 fathoms of
water, 20 miles southeast of the Kentish Knock Light Ship, and 40 miles
due east of North Foreland, about 1890. [Proc. Soc. Ant. xiii, 107,
where’ C’ is mistaken for’ G’ in the stamp; Antiq. xxiii
(1891), 10.] Gratus was possibly a first century potter of S. Gaul; see
First Richborough Report, 85, on an amphora; Second Richborough
Report, 95, on a mortarium.
OARE.—See Faversham and Ospringe, p. 93.
OLDBURY.—See Ightham.
ORPINGT0N.—Building, see p. 122. Burial urns were dug up
near Fairy Mount in High Field. [Dunkin, Arch. Mine, p. 56. Ref.
from Mr. N. C. Cook.]
OSPRINGE.—Roman earthwork on Judd’s Hill, p. 94.
Cemetery, p. 95.
OTFORD.—Villa, see p. 122. Ridged and other tiles have been
found in a hop-garden on the north of St. Thomas-a-Becket’s Well, ½
mile west of the villa. Tiles were also found in the same field as the
villa, but ½ mile east of it, and possibly a Roman tile on the north bank
of the railway cutting south-east of Child’s Bridge, a mile south-east
of the villa, about 1897. [Arch. Cant. xxxix, 155.] For
kiln, see p. 131 and road at Twitton, p. 141.
OTTERHAM CREEK.—See Rainham, Gillingham and Upchurch, and
Potteries, p. 132.
OXNEY.—See Stone.
OZINGELL.—A small unornamented lead coffin was found close
to the Saxon cemetery about 1846, when the South Eastern Railway was being
constructed, and near it was another Roman grave. Roman pottery, including
two Samian dishes stamped QVINTI. M and
DRAVCI.M, and weights made from Roman
coins were found in the Saxon cemetery and it was thought, therefore, that
the cemetery occupied the site of an earlier Roman burial place. Roman
pottery and coins, however, are frequently found in Saxon cemeteries. See
Ash, Stowting, etc. [C. R. Smith, Coll. Ant. iii, 56; vii,
190; Wright, Wanderings of an Antiq. (1854), p. 82—3; Journ.
Brit. Arch. Assoc. ii (1846), 85; Arch. Cant. xli, 334; Bubb, Thanet
Guide, 1904—5, p. 21.] The lead coffin, weights and scales,
together with rough Roman pottery, are in the Mayer Collection in
Liverpool Free Public Museum.
EAST PECKHAM.—See Hadlow.
WEST PECKHAM.—Urns containing bones, a quern, and a large
bronze bowl with two massive ring handles (which does not sound Roman),
were found in Hurst Wood, to the west of the road from Hurst to Crouch,
about 1853. [Arch. Cant. xv, proc. p. xlvi; Payne, Coll. Cant. (1893),
p. 181.] See also Mereworth.
PEGWELL.—A large dolium (holding 6 or 7 gallons), 6
ft. in circumference at the bulge, containing a glass bottle, a Samian
dish and an urn with calcined bones in it, was found at Cliff’s End,
near Pegwell, half way between Petley’s House and the boundary stone of
Minster parish. [Arch. Cant. xii, 331.] A tall grey water bottle,
perhaps Roman, was fished up from Pegwell Bay, and is now in the
Canterbury Museum. See also Ramsgate (West Cliff).
PERRY STREET.—See Crayford.
PETHAM.—In 1775, a lead coffin (2 ft. 5 in. long,
8½ in. high, weighing about 1 cwt.) decorated with the usual cable
pattern and containing the skeleton of a child, together with three urns,
was found 6 in. below the surface on a gently sloping hill near Garlinge
Green. One of the urns was of Castor ware, and was decorated with a
conventional pattern in white; another was of black pottery decorated with
white diagonal lines and the inscription B.I.B.E.—probably
Belgic—and
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