. Archaeologia cantiana. mostconsistent with known historical facts. I observed inthe first instance, that similar fragments of early ma-sonry had been worked into many other buildings inthe immediate neighbourhood,—at North Lyminge, atOttinge, at Longage, and in an ancient wall belongingto the Eectory. On a closer examination, I found thatportions of the very same mouldings which appearedat Woodlands, were to be traced in the buildings hereindicated. I was led therefore to the conclusion, thatthe structure from which these stones were taken musthave been in the immediate neighbourhood of thes
. Archaeologia cantiana. mostconsistent with known historical facts. I observed inthe first instance, that similar fragments of early ma-sonry had been worked into many other buildings inthe immediate neighbourhood,—at North Lyminge, atOttinge, at Longage, and in an ancient wall belongingto the Eectory. On a closer examination, I found thatportions of the very same mouldings which appearedat Woodlands, were to be traced in the buildings hereindicated. I was led therefore to the conclusion, thatthe structure from which these stones were taken musthave been in the immediate neighbourhood of theseplaces, most probably at some point lying betweenthem. For in a country where stone is easily obtained,and at a period when the carriage of stone must havebeen comparatively expensive, it would hardly have an-swered to purchase building materials of this kind tobe delivered at a great distance. The question there-fore narrowed itself into this form,—Was there anybuilding existing during the Norman period in the im-. FRAGMENTS OF NORMAN BUILDING, GREAT WOODLANDS, LYMINGE. DISCOVERED AT GREAT WOODLANDS. 125 mediate neighbourhood of the places where these stonesare found; and is there any reason to believe that itsmaterials were scattered in this manner by sale or other-wise ? Now it happens that the ancient residence of theArchbishops of Canterbury, in Lyminge, fulfils all theseconditions. Its site forms almost the central point ofthe localities mentioned, and it must have been of Nor-man foundation, as it was one of the principal manorialresidences of the Archbishops from the time of Lan-franc. The Camera de Lymings, or as it is also called, the Aula de Lymings, is the earliest place which is men-tioned in the Register of Archbishop Peckham, the firstwe possess, and was visited by him in 1279. It washere that he received the homage of Gilbert de Clare,Earl of Gloucester, on the 9th of June in this year, be-ginning the circuit of his great manors from this early r
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