WARDEN-IN-SHEPPEY.—A small yellow vase found in the cliff. [.Payne, Coll. Cant. (1893), p. 99; and Catal. of Collection, p. 26.]
   WELLING.—A row of cinerary urns full of bones was dug up in 1842 close to the High Road. Two or three were in the Canterbury Museum in 1889. [Arch. Cant. xviii, 313; J. Brent, Catal. of Antiq. at Cant. Mus. ( i 875), p. 36, no. 408.] See also Shooter’s Hill.
   WESTBERE.—Cemetery at Oaklands, Somers or Staines Hill near Whatmer Hall : four or five burials have been dug up on both sides of the road to Reculver as it turns north at Whatmer Hall. (1) A lead coffin in 6 pieces, soldered together, 4 ft. 8 in. long, was found inside a stone one 20 in. longer with an earth vessel near, on Whatmer Hall Estate in 1755. (2) In 1881, in digging for gravel at Oaklands (Babsoak), Staines or Somers Hill, on the east side of the Reculver Road and apparently near S. Anne’s Convent, a large urn 12 in. high and about 9 in. diameter containing burnt bones, was found at a depth of 3 ft. with fragments of a much larger vessel near it, and a Samian patera, and small black ‘olla,’ a red vase and 2 other vessels, arranged in a circle of about 4 ft. around it. Later, a heap of bones with a flat black patera inverted over them and an early 1st-century fibula was uncovered, and also a Samian vase, patera and cup, the two latter stamped SATVRNINVS and AVENTINVS. To the east of Babsoak Wood a slightly baked clay coffin was found at ‘Stone Rocks‘ in the neighbourhood. This was thought to show the existence of an early prehistoric, as well as a Roman, cemetery; burials of both dates were found previous to 1881,  extending over a space of 30 acres. [For lead coffin see Hasted, Hist. of Kent, iii (1790), 615; hence Gough in Camden, Britannia (1806), i, 356. For other burials, Payne, Arch. Cant. xv, 318, 319, and Proc. Soc. Antiq. vi, 152, from MS. of J. Brent.] In Canterbury Museum is a small plain urn from Staines Hill. Site marked on 6-inch Ord. Surv. map [Sheet No. xxxvi, S.W.] The black patera and brooch are in the British Museum.
    WESTBOROUGH (Maidstone).—See p. 99.
   WESTGATE-ON-SEA.—Two Samian bowls (4½ in. and 8½ in. diameter), one found near the shoulder of a skeleton, 2 brown vases (3 in. and 3½ in. high), 4 black vases (3 in. to 3½ in. high), 2 found with a skeleton, a Samian cup with leaf pattern (2 in. high), a red vase (3 in. high), two flesh-coloured goblets with handles (8 in. and 9½ in. high), and the necks of 4 others were found in 1865—1868, in Hundred’s Brickfields, near Hatton House. Near them was a mass of plum and cherry stones at a depth of 5 ft. [The Kent Arch. Soc.’s Museum Catal. in Arch. Cant. xix, p. 8; 6 inch Ord. Surv. Map, Sheet No. xxv, N.W.] A quantity of Roman. pottery is said to be continually turning up here. [Proc. Soc. Antiq. v (1871), 125.] Two hundred small brass Roman coins, mostly minimi, dating from Tetricus to Gratian, and a plated denarius of Maximin, many broken brooches, one enamelled in red and blue, several rings, including one set with glass, bronze bangles, and bracelets picked up on Westgate shore in 1845. [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. i (1845), 146.]
    WEST MALLING.—See Malling.
    WESTWELL.—See Eastwell.
    WHATMER HALL.—See Westbere.
   WHITSTABLE.—For Pudding Pan Rock find, see p. 163. In Rochester Museum is a much-worn lamp of red clay with plain domed discus, semicircular nozzle, and two vestigial lugs for suspension.
   WICKHAMBREUX (near WINGHAM).—A large red urn was dug up in 1793, near the Church; it was 24 in. high and 22 in. in diameter, and was inscribed in graffiti in two places on the outside VICTORIN; inside it were two black urns, one ornamented in white and white inside, 4 in. high and containing calcined bones; the other, of coarser make, was 3 in. high and 2½ in. diameter. They were formerly in Dowker’s Collection. [Gents. Mag. 1794, i, 501, plate; hence Gough in Camden Brit. (1806), i, 358, and Corpus Inscr. Lat. vii, no. 133, 5 ; Arch. Cant. xv, 356.] An urn from Wickhambreux in the Beaney Institute, Canterbury, found in 1910, is really Jutish. Arch. Cant. xxxix, 36.]
    EAST WICKHAM.—See Plumstead and Welling.
   WEST WICKHAM (near KEST0N).—In 1889 the highest part of the field called South Field, less than ¼ mile south-east of Wait’s Farm, was excavated, and lying scattered about in a large mass of compact and very dark earth, 8 ft. diameter and 2¼ ft. deep in the centre, were many fragments of one large pot, and about it white chalky matter, which might have been bones, a coarse, imperfectly baked, dark coloured pot, inclosing many light-coloured fragments. This was thought to be a Romano-British interment in a mound now levelled by the plough. Ten or twelve years before, Romano-British potsherds had been picked up from the surface, and at a later date, roof tiles. [Arch. Journ. lviii, 103—5.]
   WILMINGTON—A mass of ancient brickwork at Hook Green Farm is thought, with great improbability, to be Roman, and therefore a villa. [Dunkin, Hist. and Antiq. of Dartford (1844), Introd. p. xiv—xv.] See also Dartford and Preston.