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Roman Temple at Worth, Kent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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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.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1928

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References

page 76 note 1 Page 869.

page 81 note 1 Archaeologia, iii, p. 744.

page 81 note 2 Ibid., lxii, p. 4.