Category Archives: Research

Cobham Landscape Detectives research note 2: schedule to Norton’s map of 1641

Medway Archives: ref  U565 P1 *Checked against the original but some entries are illegible.   ………………………………………………..Acrs  rods perches 1          F– Stone Lane                                 000  00  11¾ 2          Baynards Lodge                               001  00  05 3          Park? Standing                                002  00  08 4          … Continue reading

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Cobham Landscape Detectives research note 1: Hundreds and Lathes

The Hundreds and Lathes of the Cobham area The project area comprises parts of two areas known as ‘hundreds’ whose modern names are Toltingtrough and Shamwell. These and many other hundreds originally fell within a larger area, the ‘lathe’ of … Continue reading

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The Cobham and cricket connection

During the first week on the Mausoleum cottage dig we uncovered a number of small finds, including the ceramic base of what might be a mug (vase?). The decoration on the mug seems to show the bottom half of a … Continue reading

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World War One stopline trench system revealed by lidar in Whitehorse Wood

The following article, by Andrew Mayfield, was recently published in Archaeologia Cantiana*: In 2011, a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) survey was organised for the Medway Valley (reaching from Maidstone to Shorne and from Wrotham to Boxley). LIDAR surveys are … Continue reading

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DH Mosquito crash

An investigation into a 1944 DH Mosquito crash at RAF Gravesend, described by Ben Parish. Ben Parish remembers: Mr Parish recalled that in early 1944, when the ‘Aerodrome was home to DH Mosquito’s, one of the aircraft failed to takeoff and … Continue reading

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