BORSTAL.—Cemetery, see Rochester, p. 88. Traces of foundation of a building were found here by Mr. Benjamin Harrison in 1900. [Notes on 6 in. O.S. maps, Kent, xxx, S.W., Southampton.] In the British Museum are a flagon, dish, and beaker found at Fort Borstal about 1896.
   BOSTALL HEATH.—See Industries, p. 128.
   BOUGHTON-UNDER-BLEAN.—Skulls and bones, together with a much-decayed sword and a brass coin of Pius, were found under the hedge by the ‘roadside (Watling Street), near the parsonage barn, in 1716—probably a Saxon burial. [Lewis, Hist. of Faversham (1727), 86—7; hence Hasted, Hist. Kent, vii, 5; and Gough in Camden Britannia (1806), i, 342.] For a find in 1770, see Ospringe, p. 85.
   BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA.—Villa, see p. 105. Coins of Antoninus Pius and Maximinis I found in the garden of the Parsonage House. Several urns and some Samian ware in Maidstone Museum. [Inf. from Mr. H. J. Elgar.]
   BOURNE PARK.—See Bishopsbourne.
   BOXLEY.—Under the nave of Boxley church a large reddish urn 20 in. high was found with bones in 1857, but it is not, as has been said, Roman. [Kent Arch. Soc. Museum; Arch. Cant. v, proc. p. xxxix.] Several burial groups were found in 1919—1920 in a sand pit on the east side of the Chatham-Maidstone road, about a quarter of a mile north of Sandling and west of Abbey Court. The following vessels were recovered and are now in Maidstone Museum: a Samian ware cup (form 33); a bowl of New Forest ware and a tall beaker, both of the 4th century; a jug of brown Pottery, and a one-handled flagon of hard grey ware decorated with a band of white paint. [Rochester Naturalist, vi, No. 130, 51.] From the sand pit near Cobtree Hall a red glaze bowl of poor, soft ware was found in 1905, a perfect square glass bottle in 1907, another similar bottle being destroyed; several small urns and a bronze brooch were also found. [Ibid.] A Romano-British cinerary urn with a Samian saucer was found when ploughing a field north of Harp Farm; the site is 150 yards from the farm, on the west side of the road to Chatham, via Westfield Sole. [Ibid.] A small square glass bottle and pottery found in Cobtree Sand Pit in 1905 are in the Maidstone Museum. Two burials with cinerary urns, Samian dish, other vessels and a small glass phial were found in 1721 at Grove Green [Douglas, Nenia Brit. Plates xxix,. xxx.] [Inf. from Mr. H. J. Elgar.] See also Aylesford.
   BOXTED.—Villa, see p. 106.
   BRASTED CHART.—Coin of Theodosius. [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (1850), iv, 204, 335.]
   BRIDGE.—Romano-British urns with skeletons and ‘fragments of weapons’ were found about 1831 half way up Bridge Hill. [Journ. Arch. Inst. i, 279; hence Vine, Caesar in Kent (1886), 170.] In the Mayer Collection in0 Liverpool Free Public Museum are three small cups of dark ware, two with white painted scrolls, and a large vase. A circular well of flints, possibly Roman, was found in making the Elham Valley Branch railway. [Reliq. (1888)., ii, 27.]
   BROADSTAIRS.—On the east side of the North Foreland road, opposite Lanthorne House, skeleton, with pottery and a silver coin of Gordian were dug up on the site of the new Home in January, 1896. [Arch. Cant. xxi, p. xlvii; xxii, p. ii.] A late-Celtic hut site was found in Lanthorne Road, 1907. [Arch. lxi. 435.] Burials in making new roads north of the town; 280 yds. due south of Stone House in 1890, a pit (hut) and 5 skeletons in 5 different trenches radiating from a central pit 2 ft. in diameter with pottery of late-Celtic and early Roman type. [Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxii, 510.] Two inhumation burials in garden opposite St. David’s, Stone Road, 1905, with similar pottery and 4 Samian saucers of shape 18/31 and 31 stamped COS RVF and CINNAMUS, and therefore of the 2nd century. Pottery was found here also in 1918. [Arch. lxi, 436; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. xxv, 1919, 262.] In making Castle Avenue, Kingsgate, 1891, 20 skeletons massed together, it is said, with 3 Roman urns (including one of Castor ware), Samian saucers, one stamped OF NIGRI, fibulae, bronze ring and a lump of amber with a hole pierced in it, buried in six trenches, 3 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide, cut east and west. [Proc. Soc. Antiq. xiii, 189—190; Payne, Coll. Cant. 202.] A late-Celtic hut site was found in making King Edward Avenue, 1908. Lastly, in making new roads to the south of Dumpton Gap, inhumation and cremation burials were found within 100 ft. of the Gap in 1899—1900, and inhumation burials with Samian ware of 2OO to 150 A.D. farther south in 1907, close by a hut settlement of the pre—Roman period, but extending down into the Roman period, were found in making South Cliff Parade and building houses by it in 1907—8. [Proc. Soc. .Antiq. xxii, 508; Arch. lxi, 429. This is not far from East Cliff, Ramsgate, q.v.] This village site resembles those mentioned on p. 9, and the pottery of the late first and second centuries shows strong pre-Roman influences (P1. XXXI). Lastly, British coins, possibly a silver Domitian and a Constantine were found on the fall of the cliff in the 18th century. [Lewis, Hist. of Thanet (1723) p. 8, (1736 ed.) p. 27; hence Hasted, op. cit. iv (1799), 294, 364.]