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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 86 SE 5
Type of record:Monument
Name:? Roman urn burial, Roman pottery and building material

Summary

A Roman cremation, Roman pottery and building material consisting of brick, roof and flue tile were recovered from Boyse's Hill. Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa.

Grid Reference:TQ 86 63
Map Sheet:TQ86SE
Parish:NEWINGTON, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

Associated Finds

  • BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • FLUE TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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"From Boyse's Hill, Newington, Captain P. F. Hogg has obtained the relics of an urn-burial, including a small black unglazed urn, a lower human jaw, and four coins, too much worn to be deciphered. From the same place he has collected fragments of unglazed black, red and greyware, of Upchurch and red-glaze ware ... patterned flues and floor tiles and bricks." In Rochester Museum. [See Kent 20 SE 6 - Roman urn found at Keycol Hill] (1) Immediately after leaving Keycol [TQ 868 648] the traveller descends Boyce's Hill. A few years ago boys scratched out a human skull from the sandbank by the right-hand post of a five-barred gate half way down the hill on the north side. (2) Reference based on authority (1). (3) Boyse's Hill is named after Boyse's Farm [TQ 8670 6456]. The farmer, Mr Hansford, whose land covers both sides of the Watling Street, knew nothing of these finds, and perambulation proved abortive. (4-6)


<1> Rochester Naturalist 6 1924 51 (J H Evans) (OS Card Reference). SKE49297.

<2> Collectanea Cantiana 1893 59 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE39214.

<3> VCH Kent 3 1932 161 (OS Card Reference). SKE51075.

<4> F1 CFW 04-JUL-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42420.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 86 SE 5 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4590.

<6> Eleanor Scott, 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain (Unspecified Type). SWX23549.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: Rochester Naturalist 6 1924 51 (J H Evans).
<2>OS Card Reference: Collectanea Cantiana 1893 59 (G Payne).
<3>OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 3 1932 161.
<4>OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 04-JUL-63.
<5>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 86 SE 5 - July, 1963.
<6>XY(No record type): Eleanor Scott. 1993. A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain. [Mapped feature: #30599 villa?, ]