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 On a glorious Saturday morning 10th October 2009, 15 members of The Lynsted with Kingsdown Society enjoyed a visit to Perry Wood.
Perry Wood covers the slopes of three hills between Selling and Shottenden west of Canterbury. The Discovering Perry Wood group launched an archaeological project in October 2008 with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and guidance from Trust for Thanet Archaeology to research a site that may be Roman or possibly fron Age in origin. Paul Smith, a volunteer with the project, showed us around the site and explained how the earthworks have so far been excavated and some of the points of interest that might otherwise be missed during a stroll through the woods.
There would have been a telegraph station on Shottenden Hill, which during the
Napoleonic Wars would have been one of the steps to send messages from the North Foreland to the Admiralty in a matter of minutes. Nearby there was a Mill but sadly only a few bricks remain to give a clue as to where it was sited.
The earthworks themselves are evident when pointed out and one thought is that they are the remains of a Roman summer camp. Perhaps it was the red togas that inspired Billy Butlin, who knows?
Note: In 2010, the Society enjoyed an illustrated talk that brought to life the research into these mysterious earthworks.
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