Kent Defences Archive Reports available on the Society website
Victor Smith has very kindly supplied scans of a number of reports, now made available on thee Society website.
Capel Battery Project
Chris Harman of the Capel Battery Preservation Group provides an update on a project to restore the remnants of the structures at Capel on the north of the Weald.
Surviving Doomsday?: The Cold War Bunker at Gravesend
Victor Smith, 2021, KAS Magazine, Issue 116 (Summer 2021). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Moir Pillbox discovered at Botany Bay
Paul Tritton, 2023, KAS Magazine, Issue 120 (Summer 2023). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Centre for Experimental Military Archaeology at Detling
David Flintham, 2021, KAS Magazine, Issue 116 (Summer 2021). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Kent’s twentieth-century Military and Civil defences. Part 5 – Swale
Victor T. C. Smith and Alan Anstee, 2021, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 142. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
A Roman military discovery in Gravesend?
Recently published findings from the excavations of the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit in Gravesend in 1989 draw attention to the discovery of a riverside Romano-British settlement over an area of at least 5 acres, a road extending inland, and a possible Roman military site.
‘Fortress Maidstone’ by Clive Holden now available on Society website
Clive Holden’s report is the culmination of his two years research into the military history of Maidstone in the Second World War and the plans for its defence.
- Archaeology Research Group
- Boxley
- Broadstairs
- Chart Sutton
- Cold War
- Conservation
- Defences
- Detling
- Dover
- Gravesend
- Heritage
- Historic Buildings Research Group
- Iron Age
- Kent Defences Research Group
- Maritime
- Maritime Kent Research Group
- Medieval
- Military History
- Modern
- Place Names Research Group
- Ramsgate
- Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
- Swale