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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
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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Tagged artefacts, ceramic, cobham landscape detectives, cobham village, mausoleum cottage, social history
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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
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