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Monument details

Summary

The foundations of a Roman building have been noted at Pimp's Court, also called Penn Court. Items held by the Kent Archaeological Society at Maidstone Museum are said to have been found near Pimp's Court. They include a cinerary urn, two samian saucers, one stamped DOVIICCVS [Doeccus] and a samian cup.

The Duncanson family have held Pimp's Court since the early 20th century.

See also TQ 75 SE 22

Monument Types

• BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• CUP (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• SAUCER (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• URN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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[Area TQ 75355275] "Near Pimp's Court, otherwise called Penn Court, in East Farleigh parish, a little south of Maidstone, foundations of a building thought to be Roman have been noticed. We may connect with it a cinerary urn, two samian saucers, one stamped DOVIICCVS (Doeccus), and a samian cup in the Kent Arch Soc's Museum, said to have been found near Penn Court". These foundations were sited by the OS [at TQ 74815242 - see TQ 75 SW 2] on the authority of Mr Kennard, but Mr Kennard states this was an error. (1) No further information on this site was gained at Pimp's Court which has been in the Duncanson family since the early years of the century. The finds listed by Payne are undoubtedly still in Maidstone Museum but are probably lost among 'pieces of unknown provenance'. (c) (2)


This discovery may be the same as the one marked to the south east on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions of the Ordnance Survey map (TQ 75 SE 251).

KE 27 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa. (7)

<1> Mr Kennard (OS Card Reference). SKE47395.

<2> Arch Cant 19 1892 10 93-5 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE34787.

<3> VCH Kent 3 1932 113 (M V Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE50997.

<4> Oral D B Kelly Arch Asst Maidstone Museum (OS Card Reference). SKE47913.

<5> F1 ALF 25.02.53 (OS Card Reference). SKE41852.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 75 SE 22 - February, 1953 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3974.

<7> Eleanor Scott, 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain (Unspecified Type). SWX23549.

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