. Archaeologia cantiana. GUEST HALL SAINT MARTINS PRIORY Scale of FatST MARTIN-LE-GRAND. DOVER. 27 ROMAN CEMETERIES IN CANTERBURY, WITH SOMECONJECTURES CONCERNING ITS EARLIEST IN-HABITANTS. BY JOHN BRENT, JUNR., Railway-cuttings, drainage-works, and some partial ex-cavations, have within the last few years laid open thesites of three Roman places of interment at Canterbury. In two of these, the practice of cremation had pre-vailed ; in the third, the funeral rites had been those ofinhumation. Of the localities in question, the first was at It bordered the London Road,
. Archaeologia cantiana. GUEST HALL SAINT MARTINS PRIORY Scale of FatST MARTIN-LE-GRAND. DOVER. 27 ROMAN CEMETERIES IN CANTERBURY, WITH SOMECONJECTURES CONCERNING ITS EARLIEST IN-HABITANTS. BY JOHN BRENT, JUNR., Railway-cuttings, drainage-works, and some partial ex-cavations, have within the last few years laid open thesites of three Roman places of interment at Canterbury. In two of these, the practice of cremation had pre-vailed ; in the third, the funeral rites had been those ofinhumation. Of the localities in question, the first was at It bordered the London Road, and extendedsouthwards more or less towards the railway-cuttingthat passes through Orchard Place. The second ap-pears to have been situated beneath the site of an ancientChristian burial-ground connected with, or closely ad-joining, the house of the Nuns of the Holy abutted the Old Dover Road, the Saxon WatlingStreet, and no doubt also an ancient Roman way. Thethird cemetery was in a gravel-bed, near the newly-erected station of the London, Cha
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