Author Archives: Ruiha Smalley

S.W.A.G. Logo Competition

After the brilliant success of our Cobham Landscape Detectives logo (below), brought to life by Pauline to adorn our Cobham T-shirts, it has been suggested that we need one for the Shorne Woods Archaeology Group. And so to keep us all amused as … Continue reading

Posted in News & Events | Tagged | Leave a comment

Monumental Brasses of Cobham Church

The Library of the Kent Archaeological Society has in its archives, manuscripts belonging to Harry Taswell Belcher, a former member of the KAS who had a strong interest in monumental brasses. His hand written booklet of the inscriptions at the … Continue reading

Posted in News & Events | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Neolithic activity at Shorne

We previously mentioned a flint discovered at Shorne, given to us by a member of the public. A closer look has revealed that based on its shape and form, it can be argued to be Neolithic in origin and not … Continue reading

Posted in News & Events, Research | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

A Cobham gentleman of the 1700s: Mr Hayes Diary

One of our volunteers, Don Blackburn, has transcribed the diary entries of Mr Hayes, of Cobham, Kent. As a boy Richard Hayes (1725-1790), lived with his uncle, Richard Hayes senior, at Owletts (now owned by the National Trust) in the … Continue reading

Posted in Research | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Online events in February

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

Posted in News & Events | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment