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Winter 2021 KAS Magazine

Submitted by Fred Birkbeck on 16 November 2021

There has been an extension to the deadline for articles or other content for the KAS Magazine. The Winter 2021 edition will become the Spring 2022 edition to enable the Editor Richard Taylor to fit in some important news about events scheduled for late 2021.

 

If you would like to submit content for the Magazine, contact Richard at richard.taylor@kentarchaeology.org.uk 

Capel Battery Project

Submitted by Jay Curtis on 9 August 2021
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.

 

Back in November 2018 after many years of just sitting idle, I arranged a visit to the site with the owner who showed me around to see what had been done since he bought it in 2011 and he told me of what his plans were.

Society announcement: Acquisition of gold garnet pendant cross

Submitted by Fred Birkbeck on 21 June 2021
The Society has taken the opportunity to obtain another significant piece in the form of a gold and garnet pendant cross, found by metal detectorist David Haigh at Elham and reported through the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

 

The Kent Archaeological Society (KAS) already has an important collection of Early Medieval artefacts, chiefly derived from the Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Lyminge, Bifrons and Sarre.