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these pits were several pieces of Samian, one piece
embossed, a piece of Castor ware, some Upchurch ware, a red clay vessel
apparently a mortar and much very rude pottery, unbaked and not
wheel-turned [Arch. Cant. xviii, 1]. The bronze fragments are part
of a bucket-shaped cauldron, and are now in the British Museum. A
reconstruction is figured in the Roman Guide (1922), p. 93.. (3)
Inhumation burials occur at East Cliff and may be an extension of the
cemetery at Dumpton Gap, Broadstairs. [Arch. cant. xii, 16—17,
xvii, 4; Kelly, Thanet Guide, 1904—5, p. 53.] The remains
of a ‘Roman wall’ at Dumpton Stairs are now quite washed away, but
Roman coins and pottery were still found between there and the harbour in
1904. [G. B. Gattie, Memorials of the Goodwins, 1904, 264.] Among
the smaller objects were an engraved crystal seal (Roman?) from the bottom
of Artillery Hill, two Samian dishes from St. Paul’s Schools close by
and both near East Cliff. [Kelly, Thanet Guide, 1904—5, p. 53.]
A fragment of an earthenware vessel with three holes in the base, and
parts of three other vessels from the top of High Street and perhaps to be
connected with the rubbish pits. [Arch. Cant. xii, 17.] Of the
coins, some small brass ones of the Lower Empire were found with English
coins among the piles of an old pier in making a new slipway in the
harbour [Numis. Chron. iv (1840), proc. p. 18, 19]; a Postumus from
St. Luke’s; a Pius and an Aurelius Caesar from the Derby Arms at the
corner of Margate and Prince’s Road and near the grounds of the South
Eastern College (and therefore perhaps to be connected with the burial
there); coins from the site of Arklow House, near East Cliff, and finally
an early British uninscribed coin, a Republican silver, a silver Pius, and
a silver Faustina found somewhere in Ramsgate, but with no particular
provenance. [Canterbury Museum; Dowker in Bubb, Thanet Guide, p.
53.] The ‘third’ brass of Gordian in Rochester Museum probably
comes from Broadstairs. Some Samian pottery from here is stamped, CINNAM;
OF. MERC; REBVRRI.OFF. [Dowker, Arch.. Cant. xvii, 154, 157,
159.] Pottery, including Samian, Upchurch and other ware, is in the
Ramsgate Public Library. Sheffield Museum has black pottery from Ramsgate
Cliff. See also Pegwell, Northdown, near Margate, and Broadstairs.
RECULVER.—Fort, see pp. 19—24.
RICHBOROUGH..—Fort, see pp. 24—41.
RINGWOULD—A brass coin of Carausius was found at Kingsdown,
near Walmer. [C. R. Smith, Coil. Ant. v, 154, 156, Plate xvii, fig.
6.]
RIPPLE.—Three large round narrow-necked urns, 5 ft. to 7
ft. in circumference, containing calcined bones, were found at a
depth of 5 ft. in August, 1901, in Mr. J. E. Turner’s stone pits.
Close by, but 9 ft. below the surface, were parts of skeletons placed face
downwards, and a few bits of iron. The site had the appearance of an old
river bed. [Arch. Cant. xxv, proc. p. lxix;. Daily Graphic, 13
August, 1901; hence Antiq. xxxvii (1901), 342.] About 1919, the
following coins were found near the site of the stone pits burials :—1st
century B.C., Gallic (1); Divus Augustus struck by Caligula (1); Gallienus
(1); Tetricus (1); Constans or Caesar (1). [Inf. from Mr. H. J. Elgar.]
See also Walmer.
RIVER.—A terra-cotta whipping top or ‘turbo,’ 2⅝
in. high and 2½ in. across the flat apex, was found in a field here,
1869, but its Roman date is not certain. [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xxx,
38, Plate.]
ROCHESTER.—TOWN., see pp. 8o—88.
ROMDEN.—See Smarden.
ROMNEY MARSH.—Potteries, see p. 129.
ROW HILL.—See Bexley.
ST. DUNSTAN’S, CANTERBURY.—Cemetery,
see pp. 75—6.
ST. LAWRENCE, THANET,—See Pegwell and Ramsgate.
ST. MARGARET’S.—See Rochester (p. 88, note 49) and
Chatham.
ST. MARGARET’S-AT-CLIFF (near DOVER).—A cemetery was
found about 1851 in a hedge bank of a disused road on the Downs above
Dover and St. Margaret’s, near Guston, and about 2 miles from Dover near
the Deal Road, apparently near East Hill. It contained 18 vessels filled
with burnt bones. The vessels were of different shapes, placed in pairs 8
or 10 ft. apart in holes 4 ft. deep, cut out of the chalk. No other
vessels or objects occurred with them. Among the pottery were 13 ol1ae, an
amphora, a Samian patera stamped OF. PATRIC,
and a dark-coloured patera and a ‘tympanum.’ [Journ. Brit. Arch.
Assoc. viii (1853), 361.] Among other vessels found here were a
Samian patera 7½ in. diameter, stamped HABICNSM,
and a black patera 6¾ in. diameter, a black cup, 2 red jugs with handles
and another without, 5 in. high, a white ware bottle, 2 small white
cups, bronzed outside, many large coarse and slightly baked urns, and 2
‘first brass’ coins, one of Faustina junior. Journ. Brit. Arch.
Assoc. ii (1847), 73—6.] Site marked on 6-inch Ord. Surv. Sheet No.
xlii, S.W. A British gold coin and a Roman republican denarius of the gens
Tituria (middle of 1st century B.C.) family were washed up on the
shore. [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xl (1884), 291.] The earthwork
between here and Deal
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