Research

SWAG members have produced research associated with archaeological excavations and historical projects. We aim to share it with the wider community.

ORAL HISTORY

The Shorne Woods Heritage Group is an offshoot of SWAG. Don Blackburn and Trevor Bent have been looking into recording the experiences and memories of locals in the Shorne Woods  and Cobham areas. Their Oral History project has had great results.

• Pat Sandford: memories of the Darnley Estate
• Reg Rootes: memories of Shorne woods
• Anita Bridger:memories of the camps
• Betty Robinson: memories of Cobham
• Ben Parish: memories of Shorne
• Alan Driscoll: memories of Shorne
• Nellie Dodd: memories of Cobham
• Fighter crash, New Year’s Eve, 1943
• Mosquito crash, Gravesend, 1944

STONE

• Prehistoric objectives in the Cobham Landscape
• Ranscombe Farm, on the Plantlife Nature Reserve, has produced a number of Mesolithic stone artefacts
• The Burnett, within Shorne Woods Country Park, has also produced Mesolithic finds
• Frank Beresford has produced work on the Upper Ravensbourne area in Kent
• Frank Beresford’s conference presentations:
  Palaeolithic of the Upper Ravensbourne, Kent in South East England and

  A re-examination of the late nineteenth century Palaeolithic finds in the Upper Cray and Ravensbourne Valleys in south-east England

CERAMIC

• Randall Manor tile assemblage statistics

LEAD

• A lead flask was uncovered in 2011 at Randall Manor

TECHNOLOGY

• LIDAR survey of the Medway Valley, 2016