Preliminaries

Images of Kent No. 21. The ironwork-covered south door of All Saints’ church, Staplehurst which is said to date from the late Anglo-Saxon period. The ironwork of the door, which is on most of its original vertical planking was certainly for a round-headed opening, but this is likely to have been the south doorway of the present 12th century nave. The door is a rare survival of a Romanesque iron-covered doorway. Photo courtesy of Imogen Corrigan.

Archæologia Cantiana

Being Contributions to the History and Archaeology of Kent

VOLUME CXLVI

2025

Published by the

Kent Archaeological Society

Charitable Incorporated Organization no. 1176989

© 2025 Kent Archaeological Society

ISSN 0066-5894

Produced for the Society by Past Historic, Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire

Printed in Great Britain

Index of Contents

• A New Licence for the Strangers in Sandwich, 1561
  1
• Excavations in and around Dover’s Market Square, 2021–2022
  23
• Prehistoric Activity in the Lower Medway Valley
  63
• The St Nicholas’ Hospital Mazer and St Thomas Becket
  92
• Bronze Age Ring-Ditch and Medieval Enclosures at Otterham Quay Lane
  111
• Early Modern Demographics: The Isle of Thanet 1560–1640
  136
• Sutton Valence: Early Roman Iron-Working at Haven Farm
  152
• The Sevenoaks Workhouse Scandal 1841–2
  178
• The Selbys and Ightham Mote, 1591–1641
  202
• Archaeological Investigations at Hinxhill, Ashford
  223
• Frederick Arthur Crisp and the Munimenta Antiqua
  249
• Archaeological Sites in East Canterbury
  273
• Sixteenth-Century London Stationer’s Legacy
  294

Researches and Discoveries

• The Runic Sword-Pommel From Sarre; near Deal (Grave 91)
  317
• Prehistoric Ring-Ditch and Other Features on Wood Hill, Kingsdown
  321
• Note on Hill-Names between The Blean and the North Kent Coast
  330
• Iron Age Activity on Land east of Clare Park Estate, East Malling
  340
• A Hoard of Gallo-Belgic Staters from Lenham
  346
• Archaeological Investigations on land at Rochester Airport
  355
• Burial at St Margaret’s Bay Holiday Park, St-Margarets-at-Cliffe
  368
• Further thoughts on the Swalecliffe Foreshore
  376

Reviews

• The Honour and Safety of the Realm
  379
• Tilt Boats and Hatch Boats of Gravesend
  380
• Medieval Mayfield: Archbishops and Peasants
  382
• Fordwich and Round About
  383
• The Management of the River Stour from the Medieval to Modern Periods
  385

• Kentish Bibliography
  389
• Obituary
  397
• Notes on the Contributors
  401
• General Index
  405
• Archaeologia Cantiana Cumulative Index Volumes 136–145
  419

Cover illustration: Portrait of Dorothy Bonham in the manner of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, painted c. 1588. Photograph by Gary Cosham. Reproduced with permission by The National Trust. See article on pp. 202-222, fig. 3.

1st January 2025

Board of Trustees

Prof. Kerry Brown, M.A. (Cantab.), PG.DIP.CH., PH.D., F.R.S.A.

Chair of the Board of Trustees

Peter Meddermmen,

Finance

Richard Chaplin, LL.B., LL.M.

Governance

Mike Pearson

Human Resources

Elizabeth Dixon, B.A., M.A.

Fund Raising

Kate Kersey, B.A.

Allen Grove Fund and History

Ed Knight, M.C.I.P.P.

Communications and Membership

Elizabeth Roberts

Education and Outreach

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Management Team

Richard Taylor	General Manager
Rebecca Fletcher	Deputy General Manager
Craig Campbell	Archivist
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Ann Watson	Administration Manager
Jason Mazzocchi	Editor

Advisory Council

Gerald Cramp, B.SC., PH.D.	Chair
Steve Willis, B.A., M.A., PH.D.	Archaeology
Keith Parfitt, B.A., F.S.A., MCIFA	Archaeology
Sheila Sweetinburgh, PH.D.	History
John Bulaitis, PH.D.	History

Committees and Special Interest Groups

[Contacts]

Publications Committee	Dr S. Sweetinburgh	publications@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Fieldwork Committee	K. Parfitt	fwc@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Churches Group	J. Scott	churches@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Historic Buildings Group	D.J. Goacher	historicbuildings@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Historic Defence Research Group	C. Holden	historicdefences@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Industrial Archaeology Group	J. Preston	industrial@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Maritime Archaeology Group	S. Bligh	maritime@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Lithics Research Group	Vacant	lithics@kentarchaeology.org.uk
Place Names Group	M. Bateson	placenames@kentarchaeology.org.uk

Patrons

The Countess Sondes

The Viscount William De L’Isle, M.B.E.

Sir Robert Worcester, K.B.E., D.L.

Professor David Killingray

Dr J. Whyman PH.D., B.SC. (Econ.), ASSOC.CIPD

Mr A.I. Moffat

Mr J.M. Holland, D.L., O.B.E.

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