other vessels all placed in a stone cist. In 1841,
fragments of sepulchral urns, burnt bones and a brooch, were found in a
field at Bydews on the south bank of the Medway. [Journ. Brit. Arch.
Assoc. ii, 73.] Many flooring tiles with the impression of a dog’s
paw, and the feet of pigs, deer, cat and birds, suggest another villa site
or perhaps a kiln on the banks of the Medway near East Farleigh. [Journ.
Brit. Arch. Assoc. xxviii, 273.] See also Tovil.
FARNINGHAM.—Building near Farningham Folly, see p. 113.
Villa in the Dartford District Council Housing site, see p. 113. Coins of
Claudius, Domitian, Trajan, Commodus, Severus Alexander, Carausius,
Constantine and Constantius have been found in the neighbourhood. [Arch.
Cant. xxii, 51.] See also Otford.
FAVERSHAM and OSPRINGE.—Settlement, see pp. 93—96.
FOLKESTONE.—Villa, see p. 114. Building in Folly Fields,
see p. 114.. Roman tiles have been noticed in Eadbald’s Castle on the
cliff and in the arch of a priory in the Castle Yard, now apparently
destroyed. The wall on the cliff containing Roman tiles, mentioned by
Stukeley, is probably part of this Castle. Roman coins are also said to
have been found here. [Leland, Itin. (1754), vii, fol. 141;
Camden, Brit. (1607), 246; Harris, Hist. of Kent (1719),
124; Stukeley, Itin. Curios (1722), 123; Tanner, Notitia.,
406; hence Gough in Camden Brit. (1806), i, 363.] The earthwork on
Castle Hill (called Caesar’s Camp) north of Folkestone, often said to be
Roman, has been shown by excavations to be of much later date. [Arch. xlvii,
429, 523.] And the Roman pottery and burial urns from Sugar Loaf Hill
there are probably the contents of an early tumulus disturbed to make the
earthwork. [Wright, Wanderings of an Antiquary (1854), 114; Arch.
Cant. x, proc. p. xli.] In digging a trench at the foot of Caesar’s
Camp, fragments of two large Samian vessels and smaller vessels, together
with black ware were found. Two small Upchurch urns with iron nails
occurred near the Canterbury Road and the Railway Viaduct. Near the same
spot also were many potsherds and fragments of tiles spoilt in the making,
thought to indicate a brickyard, but perhaps to be connected with the
building found in Folly Fields. A rude urn was also found in a brickyard
between the town and the viaduct. [Wright, op. cit. 114 ; Proc. Soc.
Antiq. (1st series), ii, 175, 189; Folkestone Museum.] For other finds
in Folkestone, see p. 115, note 28. A 2nd-century brooch from the Warren,
in the British Museum, should probably be connected with the villa there
(No. 22). The cemetery found on Dover Hill at Christmas, 1906, contained
only Saxon burials with a few Roman coins.
FORD.—Five cremation burials were found about 1923 in a
gravel pit, on a hill top, west of the Canterbury road about three miles
from Reculver. They are dated by two stamps of Lezoux potters—CVNISSA
and AISTIVI M
to the mid-2nd century (P1. XXXIV, No. 2). [Antiq. Journ. iv,
24 (fig.).]
FORDWICH—A gold signet ring set with an onyx, on which a
Cupid was engraved, was found in the river Stour. [Brent, Canterbury in
Olden Times (1870), p.30.]
FRINDSBURY.—Building, see p. 115. The inscribed
tessera said to have been dug up in Cockham Wood, between Hoo and
Frindsbury, in 1828, is described by Hubner (Corpus Inscr. Lat. vii,
p. 2,* no. 20*) as ‘certo falsa.’ [Soc. of Antiq. MS. Minutes, 5 June,
1828; hence Arch. xxii, 435, and ‘Britannia Romana’
(Soc. Antiq. MS.); Gents Mag. 1828, i, 627.] Some time before 1838,
a lead coffin ornamented with cockle shells and a ‘large cross’
(probably the crossed billet moulding pattern) was found 16 ft. deep in
the chalk cliff opposite St. Mary’s, Chatham. In it was an earthen
vessel, 7 in. high, containing liquid. In 1844 an almost circular
earthen vessel, glazed and ornamented and stamped—probably Samian—was
dug up in a hop garden at the back of Piper’s House. Remains of graves
are said to have occurred near the surface of the chalk, but no more
details are recorded. Perhaps all these may be connected with the villa at
Quarry House. [Phippen, Descriptive Sketches of Rochester and Chatham (1862),
p. 235; Wright, Topogr. of Rochester (1838); hence Arch. Cant. xvii,
189—192; Proc. Soc. Antic. xii.. I62—3.]
FRITTENDEN.—Two Upchurch urns, 16½ in. high and 14 in.
diameter, and 15 in. high and 12 in. diameter respectively, were
found on solid ground 15 ft. below the original surface, in a pit filled
with decayed vegetable matter in the marshy part of a wood, a mile
south-west of the parish church. Timber work, resembling the Beakesbourne
shaft, was said to have occurred with it. Lumps of Roman concrete and
fragments of tiles have also been noticed in the church walls. [Arch.
Journ. xv, 165; Arch. Cant. ix, proc. p. xc; Furley, Weald
of Kent (1871); i, 25.]
GARLINGE.—A bottle-shaped earthen vessel was found with six
Samian saucers, about 8 in. diameter, in the little valley of Dene Chapel,
in 1864. [Kelly, Thanet Guide, 1905—6, p. 35.] And see
Petham.
GILLINGHAM.—A gold coin of Postumus was found many years
before 1871. (Numis. Chron. xi (new series), 1871, proc. p. 7
Cohen, Supplement, No. 32.] A small mortarium and a flask of black
pottery have been obtained from the saltings near Sharp’s Green. [Rochester
Naturalist, No. 130, Vol. vi, 53.] A hoard of 722 minimi, very
much oxidised, was found in a small red coloured vase on the lower road to
Rainham. They included 1 Gordian, 6 Tetricus, 14 Con-
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