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by IAN TAYLOR

lens’ The Barn

leei reserved.
dances, hiring a
for £21. and when
llation cost

:e as a polling

. 1959 forebode

I for the windows;
-ated the Gipps family
.s.

when the whitlows
-n during the war,
nose. Perhaps senior
brought a welcome

.. to replace the

.n 1959, the Young
me Men's Club in 1965.
started hiring the
=re paid £26. 185. 9d.

-om tue kitchen at
roof cost £655, ,
;tage tenant, Nrs.File, l

ove: £200.

Le valiant voluntary s
an, and which over
udwill which is so ‘
vould be proud and 1
:ance. It was, and is, T
.ster, Elizabeth.

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.ZETTE, 5.2.1904

5 corn and 2 straw

in the occupation
first discovered
' who immediately
:ummoned to the spot.
stacks were ablaze
1 the vicinity.

lg the spread of the

x. at Dover to turn
: Kingstone, but it
ed. By this time, of
The total corn crop
20 acres of other
the stacks were

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KINGSTON by LOUISE ANSTEY,a?ed 10

Kingston is where it's best to be,
Here you will feel wild and free;
Children run about and play,
And toss and roll in soft sweet hay.
Kingston Church and Bardsleys Farm,
Kingston Shop and old flint Barn.

We have pretty country lanes,
Not like towns with lorries and cranes.
As the cockerel crows in the morn;
I look out of the window onto fields of corn.

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ANCIENT FINDS by CHARLES FAGG

A spot of deep summer ploughing at westwood Farm on August 7th.1972

revealed three black ‘smears’ on the tops of the turned furrows, one
of which contained bits of pottery as well as the more usual ashes.
A phone call to Jim Bradshaw of the Ashford Archaeological Society
produced instant action, and a quick look the following evening was
followed on the 9th. by a mini invasion of folks armed with tools

of their trade. A very careful inspection of a square metre around
the little bits of pot turned up a few mc_- pieces of the same type
and, much to the joy of the lady who found it, an almost perfect flint
arrow—head about 1%" long and half that width, most beautifully
worked all over. This was stated to be of a type used by the Beaker
People who arrived here about 2,000 B.C. A good start 1

Further digging down to the unmoved soil at the bottom of the
furrow proved that our navigation was a bit out— the broken pots
were right in one corner 1 More digging soon uncovered the crushed
remains of two fairly large pots of the type made by the Belgic
People between 70 B.C. and SO A.D. These were of black pottery and
appeared to be reasonably complete, although very broken, probably
by the weight of tractors only inches above. Photos and on—the-spot
drawings were taken and the pieces then carefully removed to be taken
away for washing and maybe fitting together. The other two sites
were not nearly so exciting, being merely deep and ancient hearths,
which despite any conclusive evidence Jim felt were at least as old
as the pottery, probably older. As the field also yielded its usual
mass of worked flint tools, scrapers etc., the whole group went
away content with an interesting, and to us local yokels, exciting
evening. we now await with interest the return of the ‘finds’ which

is promised after inspection is completed.

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RIVERSIDE HOUSE FOR SALE KENTISH GAZETTE, 24. 12. 1904

At the Red Tdon Inn, Bridge last Tuesday, Mr. Edward L. Gardener
offered for sale by auction ‘Riverside House ' situated at Bridge.
The property was submitted for sale by order of the mortgagees and
the upset price was $580. There was however no bid 1 The property

may now be sold privately.

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The large field surrounded by the B2065, Frog lane, and Rose lane
at Bishopsbourne is known as "Forty Acres".

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