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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
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n with the nave, it must be identifiedin date and construction. The same may be said ofthe corresponding bit of wall on the north side, which,however, has been more interfered with by thebondings of later work. In the face of the bit ofwall on the south side, though rough and plasteredwith hard cement, may be detected the broken bondersof a wall that formerly ran westwards from it, andexactly in a line with the south wall of the chancel.The vertical line of the junction of the southern faceof the destroyed wall with the bit of wall underexamination can be traced quite clearly. It has allthe proper signs of bonding, precisely similar in treat-ment to the signs of bonding seen on the face of thesouth wall of the chancel immediately above thefoundations of the Adjunct which you fortunatelydiscovered by excavation. (To be described here-after.) The foundations which you found under theflooring of the nave are in a position to have carriedthis destroyed wall. According to your description,
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ST. martins church, canterbury. 7 though they are fragmentary, their material anddepth correspond exactly with the foundations of thechancel wall helow the brick footings thereof. I drewMr. W. H. St. John Hopes attention to the signs ofbonding which I have described, and from recentcorrespondence with him I infer that he accepts theevidence as sufficient to prove the former existence ofa destroyed wall. The recovery of this wall, runningin the direction described, and contemporaneous indate with the western part of the chancel, is animportant factor in the consideration of the relativedates of the existing chancel and nave—a considera-tion which so far has not yielded a unanimousopinion among archaeologists, and which, therefore,I will not now discuss. At the same level as these foundations, and imme-diately beneath the piscina, is a hole measuring 2 ft.by 1ft. 8 in., and 5 ins. deep, with a flooring of roughconcrete—the object of which is at present uncertain. In the N. and S. co

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