In the course of the winter of 1924–25 the remains of one of the largest fourth-century Christian churches, outside of Rome, were discovered on the site of the Byzantine city of Constantia in Cyprus by the Curator of Ancient Monuments. The church belongs to the Basilican type with five aisles and four rows of columns, a type which preceded the regular Byzantine or domical plan with its thick walls and abutments. Its dimensions, exclusive of remains of attached buildings, porches, etc., are 184 ft. from east to west and 148 ft. from north to south. The central nave is 38 ft. wide and the double aisles on either side cover a width of 52 ft. in each case, and the total area under its wooden roofs was consequently over 27,000 square feet. In the centre of the eastern wall is a semicircular apse of the same width as the central nave.

Sundials belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period have not received much attention from archaeologists, and a complete list of all existing specimens should be of some value; indeed, Professor Baldwin Brown in The Arts in Early England, vol. ii, 1925, says ‘a full list of existing Saxon sundials…is a desideratum’.

In Castle Field at Worth—the old name of which is Word— at a distance of two miles south from Sandwich, is a Roman site which is described by William Boys in his well-known History of Sandwich It is situated in a field on the east side of the Sandwich-Deal road (fig. 1). Boys, at the end of the eighteenth century, apparently uncovered the walls of a building at surfacelevel. Since that date, there is no mention of any further disturbance other than that of the plough. Boys states that he found some pottery, but he gives no particulars of it. He suggests that a watch-tower or lighthouse was built here in Roman times, but excavations, undertaken in 1925, clearly demonstrate that the walls represent the remains of a Roman temple, and further that this shrine was erected on an earlier settlement.

This barrow is situated on the southern slope of Hadden's Hill Plantation, on the north side of the lower end of Queen's Park Avenue, and is in a line with the western border of the Nursery Gardens—Lat. 50.44.52., Long. 1.50.19. W. The plantation has lately been cleared and the barrow is now practically free from all vegetation (fig. 1). Owing to its position upon a slope this barrow may, by silting and spreading, have altered its shape, and the fact that it is composed of sand and is almost devoid of vegetation may have been a contributory cause. In all probability, however, its oval outline at the time of excavation was its original outline, for that was the shape of the black band running through the barrow at the level of the old turf-line ; but the complete absence of a ditch makes it difficult to speak with certainty.

The castle of Chilham stands immediately to the west of the Jacobean mansion built by Sir Dudley Digges in 1616. Traditions of remote antiquity have long been associated with the site, but the record of discoveries of Roman remains during the building of the mansion is not circumstantial, and a tunnel driven through the mound under the ancient keep by a recent owner failed to reveal any trace of Roman age. Chilham was held under Edward the Confessor by Sired and was granted by the Conqueror to Odo bishop of Bayeux. It was held, under him, by Fulbert de Dover, and on Odo's disgrace in 1084 it was granted to Fulbert in chief and became the head of his barony. The subsequent descent of the property need not detain us, as it has no bearing on the architectural history of the castle.