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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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talisfield with its members, the Rectory of Rodmersham,Hadlow, Tonbridge, Shibourn, and Capel to Ralph Fane,and are returned as valued at 101 pounds 13 shillings and4 pence. The remains of the preceptory are yet standing on thesouth-east side of the church, near the vicarage, and consistof a range of timber buildings forming two sides of a square.They are both old and dilapidated, and are now utilized aslabourers cottages. They are picturesque and worth avisit. Other buildings also which belonged to the Order ofKnight Hospitallers are standing on the higher land in therear of Oxenhoath, being locally known as Rats Castle/On the gable may be seen the distinctive letters S. I.; thesealso are utilized as labourers cottages. The accompanyingviews will give a better idea of these ancient buildings thanany lengthened description. Thus time which wears the stones awayOf Buildings old, and Ruins Grey,Recalls the past—but who may tell How long they nourished ere they fell! * Larking, p. 124.
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( 275 ) DAVINGTON PRIOEY. BY REV. CARUS VALE COLLIER, B.A., F.S.A. Davington is situated in the Hundred of Faversham, in thelath of Scra)r, and in the county of Kent, being aboutforty-seven miles eastward of London. The origin of the name of Davington or Daunton, as itis sometimes spelt, is very uncertain. In a Saxon charterdated a.d. 962, says Mr. Willement, it is called Danitune orDanitun. Whether the name has anything to do with, theDanes, as some think, has yet to be proved. The discovery of Roman remains on Davington Hillpoints to the fact that that warlike people were drawn herefor some special purpose. Mr. Jacob, in his History ofFaversham, p. 3, tells us that vessels and urns of varioussizes, together with medals of the Roman Emperors, fromthe reign of Vespasian to that of Gratian, were found; itis inferred from this that Davington Hill is the site of aRoman cemetery.* I believe Davington does not appear in Domesday Book. The Priory of Davington was founded in the year 1153by

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