Cobham Landscape Detectives was a three year discovery project covering the Cobham landscape, using LiDAR, geophysics, fieldwalking, metal detecting, research, oral history, small scale trenching and test pitting.
Kent County Council secured a grant of £96,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the project. Stuart McLeod, head of HLF South East, said:
“Thanks to National Lottery players, this project provides a wonderful opportunity for people to delve into their local heritage and we’re delighted to award this grant so that the volunteers can begin their journey of discovery.”
Map of Cobham dated 1797 (from the British Museum online gallery)
Cobham Village project 2018
Cobham Village project 2017
The summer project for 2017 concentrated on the village of Cobham, Kent.
This element of Cobham Landscape Detectives launched on Saturday and Sunday the 18th and 19th of February 2017, at the Great Hall in Cobham College, 10am-4pm. Cobham residents were encouraged to come forward and dig a test pit in their garden in July. Activities at the school, and a larger community dig were held in the last week of July.
Mausoleum Cottage Dig 2016
For details on the Mausoleum Cottage dig of 2016, click here.
Research
Cobham News
- Cobham online chat
- Monumental Brasses of Cobham Church
- A Cobham gentleman of the 1700s: Mr Hayes Diary
- Early footage of village life in Cobham
- Cobham booklet coming soon
- Several injured in crash near Cobham
- Kent Archaeological Society: Historic Buildings Conference
- Cobham Exhibition June 2019
- Guided walk – Cobham archaeology and history
- Cobham wraps up and Amherst kicks off
- This Saturday 29th September
- Quick Cobham update
- Cobham Fete 2018
- Owletts this week
- Back to Sunnyside
- Ern and myself
- Now for another little yarn…
- A girl in Cobham village
- Living in Gravesend and Cobham
- The Hollow Way, Cobham Woods
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