The Anglo-Saxon Barrow Cemetery on Breach Down, Kent
Karen Anderson, 2025, ‘The Anglo-Saxon Barrow Cemetery on Breach Down, Kent’, Romsey Saxon Landscape Website.
Changing Queenships in 10th Century England: Rhetoric and (Self) Representation in the Case of Eadgifu at Kent in Cooling
Jonathan Tickle, 2023, Early Medieval Europe, 31: 598–628. [Research supported by the Allen Grove Local History Fund of the Kent Archaeological Society].
The Danelaw, 9th-11th century
Dr Alexander Thomas introduces the Danelaw; an 11th-century name for the areas of Northern and Eastern England in which the laws of the Danish Viking empire from the late 9th century until the early 11th century.
Animals and food at Rochester Priory, c.1235
Dr Christopher Monk explores details about animals and animal products consumed at Rochester Priory emerging from a section in Custumale Roffense concerning the monastery’s lay servants (folios 53r-60v).
The Rochester Bible, c.1125-1140
Dr Christopher Monk explores The Rochester Bible; a richly decorated manuscript produced by the monks of St Andrew’s Priory, Rochester.
Food rents paid to Rochester Priory, c. 1235
Dr Christopher Monk explores the role of animals and animal products at the Priory of Saint Andrew at Rochester, for everything from manuscripts to candles and transport to food.
Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521
Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.
Rochester Castle watergate, c.1380
The north-west curtain wall of Rochester Castle forms a bastion, or projection, at the point where the medieval Rochester Bridge crossed the Medway. An excavation in 2017 revealed the watergate in the west face of the bastion for the first time in decades.
Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf, 1067-1088
Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses what we know - or what little we know - about Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf (1067-1088).
Bishop Hamo of Hythe (c.1275-1352)
Perhaps second only to Gundulf in shaping the medieval Rochester Cathedral and St Andrew’s Priory, there is some evidence to suggest it may be down to Hamo and the turbulent times in which he lived that resulted in the two halves of Textus being bound together in the mid-fourteenth century.
Textus Roffensis origins
Dr Christopher Monk explores the origins of Ethelbert’s law-code, foundational document of the Early English Laws portion of the ‘Rochester Book’.
Rochester Cathedral Lapidarium and Spolia
Jacob Harry Scott, B.A., ACIfA, 2021, Submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Archaeology & Heritage School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.
Clandestine Marriage in the Diocese of Rochester during the Mid-fourteenth Century
Dr. Andrew J. Finch History B.A. (Hons); M.A. (Study of Contemporary Japan); D.Phil., 2020, Kent Archaeological Society Paper No. 22. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Rochester Cathedral Masons’ Marks
Jacob Harry Scott PCIfA, 2019, Dissertation for BA degree in Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.
Medieval Canterbury Weekend 1st-3rd April 2016: souvenir brochure
2016, Medieval Canterbury Weekend 1st-3rd April 2016: souvenir brochure, Canterbury: [n.p.].
Redressing the Balance: Boxley 1146-1538; A Lesser Cistercian House in Southern England
Postgraduate research degree thesis by Elizabeth Eastlake submitted to The University of Winchester, December 2014.
The Early History of Bredhurst Manor
Roger Cockett, 2012, Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
The Pilgrims’ Way Revisited: The use of the North Downs main trackway and the Medway crossings by medieval travellers
Derek Bright, 2010, Kent Archaeological Society eArticle. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Walking Home From The Fish-Pond: Local Allusion In Walter Of Bibbesworth’s 13 C. Treatise For Housewives
William Sayers, 2008, Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Two previously unrecorded marginal illustrations in a Christ Church, Canterbury Manuscript: Cotton Tiberius A. III.
Tracy-Anne Cooper, 2005, Kent Archaeological Society Paper No. 14. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
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