Archaeologia cantiana . marsh ground where thesevessels were found, within a few feet of the watersedge. He adds that this lower ground is higher nowby 2 or 3 feet than it was in the time of the Romanoccupation. His opinion is supported, I think, bythe great depth at which this discovery was made,viz., 10 to 12 feet below the surface. That it was afunereal deposit there can be no doubt from theorderly disposition of the vessels, and from thecontents of at least three of them. It will be ob-served that three of the vases have the peculiarityof having lids or covers, two of which were evidentlym
Archaeologia cantiana . marsh ground where thesevessels were found, within a few feet of the watersedge. He adds that this lower ground is higher nowby 2 or 3 feet than it was in the time of the Romanoccupation. His opinion is supported, I think, bythe great depth at which this discovery was made,viz., 10 to 12 feet below the surface. That it was afunereal deposit there can be no doubt from theorderly disposition of the vessels, and from thecontents of at least three of them. It will be ob-served that three of the vases have the peculiarityof having lids or covers, two of which were evidentlymade for the purpose. I do not remember meetingwith any such before. No other articles of domesticuse or ornament than the smaller vessels were Roach Smith, in concluding his paper abovementioned, leads us to expect something further fromhis pen in connection with discoveries in this is to be hoped that he may take notice of thediscovery of these seven vessels. They are atChatham, in my c in ) RESTORATION HOUSE/ ROCHESTER. BY WILLIAM BRENOHLEY RYE. In my paper on Visits to Rochester and Chatham,5which was read at the Congress of the ArchaeologicalInstitute at Rochester in July 1863, and printed inVol. VI. of the Archceologia Cantiana, when speakingof Charles visit to Rochester at the time of hisrestoration, I hazarded an opinion that ColonelGibbons house, at which the King was received andentertained, was probably Eastgate House in theHigh Street, and that that known as RestorationHouse in Crow Lane, St. Margarets, was then theresidence of Sir Erancis Gierke, for Rochester,whom Charles knighted on that occasion.* Thomas Aveling, the present owner of Restoration House, has kindly furnished me withvaluable information, partly derived from documentsin his possession, which appears to me to satisfactorilyestablish the fact that his house, and not EastgateHouse, was the actual resting-place of KingCharles on the 28th and 29th of
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