Archaeologia cantiana . debris. Owing to the nature of theplace and the value of the ground, it was not possible forthe works to be left open permanently, but here again wewere relieved from much expense by the owner offering tofill them in again at his own cost. The value of the results, from an archaeological point ofview, is very great, for not only has the plan of anotherKentish Abbey been rescued from oblivion, but the planitself exhibits a singular disposition of the buildings. Outof my own collection of upwards of one hundred monasticand conventual plans, there is not one which may be d
Archaeologia cantiana . debris. Owing to the nature of theplace and the value of the ground, it was not possible forthe works to be left open permanently, but here again wewere relieved from much expense by the owner offering tofill them in again at his own cost. The value of the results, from an archaeological point ofview, is very great, for not only has the plan of anotherKentish Abbey been rescued from oblivion, but the planitself exhibits a singular disposition of the buildings. Outof my own collection of upwards of one hundred monasticand conventual plans, there is not one which may be describedas even approximately similar. The numerous tiles, bases, pieces of mouldings, etc., dis-covered during the excavations have been carefully preservedby the owner. It would seem from these fragments thatthe majority of the work was of late Transitional or EarlyEnglish date, which agrees very well with the date of thefoundation. The accompanying Plan was drawn by me from measure-ments taken during the Section of Vaulting-rib, from the Chapter House. ?f 2 ( 68 ) TRACES OE ROMAN OCCUPATION IN ANDNEAll MAIDSTONE. BY CANON SCOTT ROBERTSON. The learned Camden, in his Britannia, sought to identifyMaidstone with Vagniacw, a Roman station mentioned byAntoninus as forming one stage on the second Iter, or route,given in his Itinerary. He says it stood twenty-eight milesdistant frpm London, between Noviomagus and Durobriva?(Rochester), on the road to Durovernum (Canterbury). Hefounded its identification mainly upon a fancied resemblancebetween the Saxon name of Maidstone and the wordVagniacw. We cannot endorse Camdens conjecture, although itwas adopted by many learned writers after him; but modernresearch has proved that the whole district around Maid-stone was largely occupied and cultivated by the Romans,who also worked stone quarries in the Upchurch, Rochester, and Strood, as far as Tunbridge,they seem to have settled, on both banks of the Medway,
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