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Victoria County History of Kent Vol. 3  1932 - Romano-British Kent - Topographical Index - Page 157

   HOO ST. WERBURGH.—In the marshes about half a mile south-east of the church, three burials were found in 1849 at a depth of 5 ft., 3½-4 ft. of which was mud with. peat below. A large two-handled buff-coloured urn, 18 in. high, 16 to 17 in. in diameter, had in its mouth a small black cup, and was accompanied by a jug of buff pottery, 7 in. in height. There was also an urn, 21 in. in diameter and ⅝ in. thick, covered with a tile and containing marsh mud and ashes and two Samian plates stamped CRVVI . . and LYCI . . IK. ; an incised buff-coloured urn 3½ in. high; a black Castor urn 4 in. high ornamented with foliate pattern in white slip of late date; and finally fragments of another urn which was said to contain Samian dishes. [Arch. Cant. x, 75; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. v, 339, both with figs.; hence Arch. Journ. xlii, 278. Some of the pottery is in the British Museum, and one piece of Samian is in Rochester Museum.] Further cremation burials were found in 1912 in the same marshes, but a mile south-west of the church; they were 4. ft. deep; and earlier marsh levels were observed far below the existing one. [Arch. Cant. xxxi, 280.] The late Mr. G. M. Arnold had in his collection a large urn and tile found with other burials in Robson’s brickfield in 1894; and by these brickfields, foundations of buildings were noticed a few feet below the surface in 1895, 30 yards from the footpath on the river bank. A silver tetradrachm of Philip II of Macedon was found in the parish. [Arch. Cant. xxxi, 286.] See also Cliffe-at-Hoo and Stoke. For pottery kilns near here, see Industries, p. 130.
   HOOK GREEN.—See Wilmington.
   HORTON KIRBY.—See Farningham.
   HOUGHAM.—A hoard of silver coins, some weighing 17¾—20 grains, was found in a pot here in 1780. [Boys, Hist. Sandwich (1791), p. 870.] , A Roman burial with a lamp and part of a glass vessel was found about 1918, and decorated Samian is recorded from Farthingloe Farm. . [Arch. Cant., xxxiv, 156.]
   HUNTON.—An urn containing ashes and the bones of a young person was found in deepening a drain about 1856. [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xii, 235.]
   HYTHE.—See Lympne, p. 55, and Saltwood, p. 124.
   ICKHAM.—Foundations, see p. 119. A bronze vessel from Ickham Court Hall was in Payne’s Collection. [Arch. Cant. xv, 356.] Near Ickham, Roman vessels were found by the Preston-Wingham road. [Arch. Cant. xx, 50.] For the cemetery on Dearson Farm, see Preston and Wingham.
   IGHTHAM.—For a building near the churchyard, see p. 119. Pottery has been found in the churchyard, in Churchfield, west of Court Lodge, and pottery with coins in Mains Field and Barnfield. For a burial near Court Lodge, see. p. 119. A mile and a half further west in Bucknell Meadow, Chart Farm on the St. Clere estate, groups of pottery were found in planting hops in 1835. They extended diagonally across the field from south-east to north-west, and were equal distances apart, each group being accompanied by a glass lachrymatory. [F. J. Bennett, Ightham (1907), p. 55; Arch. Cant. ii, 8; Arch. Journ. xxxv, 289. Some of the pottery is said to be ‘in .the British Museum.] Roman pottery is also said to have been found at Rose Wood, One Tree Hill, Wilmot Hill, Stonestreet, Foxberry, Broad Heath and Terry’s Lodge Hill near the reservoir. [Benjamin Harrison, quoted by G. Payne, Coil. Cant. (1893), p. 177ff, and by Sir E. Harrison.] Pot-holes containing Roman and pre-Roman. potsherds and a mortarium rim.[Arch. Cant. xxvii, introd. p. lviii.] Roman pottery has also been found in Patchgrove Field bathing pool. Just below Oldbury Camp, Mr. B. Harrison found a gold coin of Trajan in 1907. North of Ivy Hatch Court, a cremation burial was found about 1885. [Arch. Cant. xxxiv, 157. Sir E. R. Harrison, Harrison of Ightham (1928), pp. 69, 276.] See also Borough Green and Plaxtol.
   JOYCE GREEN (near DARTF0RD).—Cemetery, see p. 89.
   JOYDEN’S WOOD.—See Bexley.
   KEMSLEY (near SITTINGBOURNE).—See p. 97.
   KENNINGTON.—A small globular one-handled flagon of reddish pottery from an interment on Sandhurst Farm in 1914 is in Maidstone Museum. [Inf. from Mr. H. J. Elgar.]
   KESTON.—Cemetery and house, see p. 119. A Roman lamp of fine terra-cotta (P1. XXIV, No. 3) found in 1862 on Keston Common within 300 yds. of Caesar’s Camp, was in the possession of the late Mr. George Clinch. [Antiquary, x (1884), 108.] A bronze pendant of curious form (see Brit. Mus. Rom.-Brit. Guide, 1922, fig. 52) is in the British Museum. See also Holwood.
   KINGSDOWN.—See Ringwould.
   KINGSGATE (in THANET).—The remains from barrows here are not definitely stated to be Roman. [Soc. Antiq. MS. Minutes, iv, 139; Hasted, History of Kent, iv, 364; hence Gough in Camden Britannia (1806), i, 349.] See also Broadstairs and Margate.
   KINGSTON.—See Barham.
   KITS COTY.—See Aylesford.
   LANGLEY.—See Lockham. 

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