ROYAL MUSEUM AND PUBLIC LIBRARY, CANTERBURY

City Librarian: F. HIGENBOTTAM, B.A. F.L.A.
Telephone Number: CANTERBURY 63608

Mrs. A. Shirley,
Post Office,
Bridge,
Canterbury.

27th March, 1969.,

Dear Mrs . Shirley,

I have been looking through the volumes of Archaeologia
Cantiana for references to the archaeology of Bridge and Patrixbourne
and have found the following sites mentioned.

1. Bifrons Saxon Cemetery. This will be the cemetery that you mentioned
in our telephone conversation. It was a rich site and was excavated in the
last century; the finds are in Maidstone Museum. It  mentioned in

vols. VI, X, XIII.

2. Bridge Hill Iron Age Site. This was excavated quite recently and the
finds are in the Royal Museum; it is an €3.I'}.‘f,? iron age site. It is mentioned in
vol. LXXVIII.

3. Vol. XLVI contains an article on the Canterbury - Dover Roman road

I and descirbes its course through Bridge.

I don't know whether Bishopsbourne comes in your area,
but we have in the museums a Roman glass vessel from the lake in
Bishopsbourne Park, and there are R.oman barrows in Gorsley Wood,
Bishopsbourne. I hope that this is the information you wanted.

Yours sincerely,  L
am  "‘””§§\e“‘

Curator .