A Roman Lead Sealing from Goodnestone near Canterbury

Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group Identities in Iron Age and Roman East Kent

“…21 As at other civitas capitals such as Verulamium and Silchester, it was not until the Flavian period and later that an indisputable urban character was formed and the street grid, forum (probablyit remains unexcavated) and other key Roman urban features were constructed. It seems that transforming the site at Canterbury into an urban centre and translating wealth and power into new, imperially-recognisable forms may not have been a priority for the local people or the imperial authorities in the mid-first century A.D. For the archaeology of Roman Canterbury, see Blockley et al 1995;1997;Driver et al 1990;Frere 1970;Frere and Stow 1983;Frere et al 1982a;1982b; Possible villa complexesfor example, at coastal sites such as Folkestone, Minster-in-Thanet, Sandwich and Sholdensuggest that coastal trade routes may have been of greater importance to local elites than the civitas centre at Canterbury, at least at certain periods. For Folkestone, see Parfitt 2012;Winbolt 1925; for Minster-in-Thanet, see Archaeologia Cantiana for multiple articles, including Parfitt et al 2008;for Sandwich, see Parfitt 1980; for Sholden, see Parfitt 2009.…”

“… 70 Analysis of surface finds is currently underway, but partial reports on certain objects exist: see Bishop 1995; Holman 1998; Mackreth 1997; Still 1997. For the coins, see Holman 2005, 21–3.…”