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Victoria County History of Kent Vol. 3  1932 - Romano-British Kent - Topographical Index - Page 149

Dartford Museum has burial urns, potsherds, 2 fibulae and a spindle-wheel, probably from the Castle Avenue site. [Lewisham Journ. 1 Feb. 1908.] See also p. 61, and Ramsgate, St. Peters, and Margate (Northdown).
   BUCKLAND (near DOVER).—Cemetery, see p. 47.
   BUCKLAND (near MAIDSTONE).—Villa, p. 99.
   BUCKLAND (near TEYNHAM).—Villa at Ospringe, p. 94.
   BURHAM.—Supposed Mithraic temple, p. 109. Villa, p. 109 (a). Many Roman burials were found near the road towards Eccles. [Payne, Coll. Cant. (1893), p. 126. There are several vessels in the Kent Arch. Soc.’s Mus.] See also Aylesford and Eccles.
   CANTERBURY.—TOWN, see p. 61.
   CAPLE (near DOVER).—In Dover Museum are a black urn and a skeleton.
   CHALK.—Potsherds found in East Court Farm in 1901 are in Maidstone Museum.
   CHALKWELL.—See Sittingbourne, p. 98, No. (9).
   CHARING.—A village on the downs between Canterbury and Maidstone, was thought by Talbot to be Durolevum; but there is no Roman road, and although many Roman antiquities are said to have been found here, nothing more definite is recorded. Roman glass and pottery were found on Charing Heath in 1824. [C. R. Smith’s Journ. cited by Payne in his Topographical Index of discoveries, Arch. li, 455 ; Talbot in Hearne’s Itin. of Leland, iii (1745), 1541; Harris, Hist. Kent (1719), i, 367; Stukeley, Itin. (1724), p. 114.] The remains of a villa are said to have been found at the foot of Yew Tree Hill. [Payne, Coll. Cant. (1893), p. 144., note.]
   CHARLTON (near DOVER).—Cemetery, see p. 47.
   CHARLTON (near GREENWICH).—Village, see p. 101; pottery-kiln, p. 129.
   CHART SUTTON.—Roman burial urn and fibula, ‘found at Sutton,’ now in Kent Arch. Soc.’s Museum, [Arch. Cant. ix, proc. p. xxxv bis.] The cemetery mentioned by Payne, Arch. i, 455,. is probably that observed at Sutton Valence in 1839. [Maidstone Museum Catalogue; Arch. Cant. xix, p. 8.]
   CHARTHAM.—Many remains are said to have been found here about 1730, but it is doubtful if they are Roman. Gough in Camden Britannia (1806), i, 354.] The bronze plates and Samian dishes from Chartham mentioned in the Catal. of Payne’s Collection, p. 24, are probably from these burials. Roman interments are said to have come to light in Rye Grass field on Nickle or Nickhill Farm, and Hatch Green. [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xliv, 290; Payne, Coll. Cant. (1893), 130, 198.] A glass bottle of unusual typ; with a brooch and coins of the Lower Empire, was found in a barrow on Chartham Downs—perhaps one of the above. The bottle alone is in the British Museum.]
   CHATHAM.—Building, Amhurst’s Redoubt, on the hill, see p. 110. An inhumation cemetery was found in 1897 at ‘The Brook’ on the east side of Slickett’s Hill immediately south of the Lines and ⅓ mile north-west of the villa (see p. 110). It contained eleven graves cut in the chalk, 4. to 6 ft. apart, in two lines, almost all with head to the north. With one female skeleton were ten bronze bracelets, mostly of ornamented ribbon wire, fastening with hook and eye, an iron knife with a suspension ring and part of the sheath, and 58 beads. Most of the pottery in the graves was Castor ware, but included some Samian, and at the feet of most of these skeletons were hobnails, with bits of charcoal and large iron nails around them, [Arch. Cant. xxiii, 14 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. xviii, 39.] On the western side of the hill, in excavations for a mission church, several cremation burials were found about 1907; two urns containing bones had their bases pierced with holes. [Arch. Cant. xxix, lxxxi.] The objects from both cemeteries are in the Chatham Technical Institute. A Constantinian hoard of 80 small brass coins found in a house here, but thought to be from the Chatham or Rochester neighbourhood. [Arch. Cant. xxxiv, 158.] A lead coffin was dug up on 16 May, 1878, in the south-west corner of the New Cemetery, Chatham, near the Maidstone Road. It was 6 ft. long, and contained a skeleton of a middle-aged man embedded in lime with a pale green glass vessel. Outside were 2 glass vases and 2 brown earthen vessels 5 in. and 5¾ in. high. The whole find lay 7 ft. deep. The coffin had been enclosed in a wooden case and was bound at the edges with iron bands; the lid was decorated with ‘billet’ moulding worked at the head into 3 triangles enclosing escallop shells. Many urns are said to have been found in the cemetery previously, and near by a bronze fibula and a worn copper coin of Trajan. [Arch. Cant. xii, 430; xiii, 168; and Proc. Soc. Antiq. vii, 415; brief note Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xxxvi, 255; C. R. Smith, Coil. Antiq. vii, 187, and plate xix, 7—8—9, and briefly Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xxxiv, 259. Now in the Technical Institute, Chatham. A similarly decorated coffin was found in the same year at Crayford, q.v.] Miscellaneous finds from Chatham comprise a gold finger-ring set with a nicolo onyx, from a field behind the Star Inn; urn burials from the road to New Brompton almost opposite the same Inn; and a dark-coloured vase with an opening at

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