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Victoria County History of Kent Vol. 3  1932 - Romano-British Kent - Topographical Index - Page 154

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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