Author Archives: Ruiha Smalley

Online events in February

Posted on 4th February 2021 by Ruiha Smalley

Dr Sophie Adam’s talk on the Boughton Malherbe bronze age hoard and it’s conservation is now online here: https://youtu.be/CFraoTYvxb0 (thanks to Maidstone Museum). The Kent Archaeological Society are holding an online talk about the Ebbsfleet, Thanet dig that SWAG were involved in … Continue reading →

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Cobham, Kent

Posted on 4th February 2021 by Ruiha Smalley

Cobham Landscape Detectives was a three year discovery project covering the Cobham landscape. Various techniques were used to study the village and the woods, including LiDAR, geophysics, fieldwalking, metal detecting, research, oral history, small scale trenching and test pitting. Kent County … Continue reading →

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Manorial Documents Register online

Posted on 30th January 2021 by Ruiha Smalley

The Manorial Documents Register (MDR) is the official index to English and Welsh manorial records and provides brief descriptions of documents and details of their locations in public and private hands.  The National Archives at Kew now provide online access to this resource. Manorial … Continue reading →

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Betty Bicker-Robinson: memories of WW2

Posted on 20th January 2021 by Ruiha Smalley

At the beginning of the war I was in my early teens, and each year we used to go hop picking on My Pye’s farm for about seven weeks. Whenever the air raid siren went off, and the German planes … Continue reading →

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Archaeological excavation in Cliffsend

Posted on 17th December 2020 by Ruiha Smalley

A major archaeological excavation has started in Cliffsend ahead of the construction of the new Thanet Parkway station. Led by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust, the excavation will continue over the winter and is expected to be completed by March 2021. … Continue reading →

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