mortar and with arches two feet in height. The arches were built in two parallel rows, six at the south end being constructed of dressed sandstone and the others of red tiles. The walls in places were deeply calcined by the heat of the furnace. Finds were recorded as being of small pieces of Roman pottery, probably from Upchurch, a few bones, some remains of charcoal and some fragments of metal, including a nail.
   The much publicised discovery of a ‘Roman villa’ in Hartley gained some authoritative recognition. In fact it was not a Roman villa nor was it in Hartley, but the latter error was corrected in 1955 when the powers that be, in their wisdom, transferred to that parish from Ash some seventy acres of mostly uninhabited land which included Chapel Wood. As to the provenance of the find, the 1932 volume of the Victoria County History of Kent was a little dubious and. a more positive doubt was expressed in 1940., when  Mr R.F. Jessup suggested that the site was that of a tile-kiln. Such indeed it was found to be when the site was excavated under the direction of Mr Brian Philp in 1963. Mr Philp’s report suggests a thirteenth or fourteenth century date and that the kiln was probably built to provide tiles for buildings within the earthwork.
   Subsequently, in 1967, a survey of the Scotgrove site 

was made and a plan of the site prepared. Five years later, when there was threat of a proposed exit road from New Ash Green being driven through Chapel Wood, a major excavation was begun by local archaeologists and at the time of writing is still continuing. The most interesting nexus of buildings so far discovered includes the foundations of a timber hall house, demolished and. rebuilt on the same site, a masonry extension with an undercroft and another hall house of equal size nearby. There have also been unearthed, within the ambit of a sheep or cattle enclosure of much later date, the remains of what was almost certainly the building that Dr Thorpe identified, probably aright, as the chantry chapel. No part of the chapel walls has survived above ground and there is some evidence that the last remnants of these had been used, probably in the early part of the last century, to fill in the well which had occasioned concern to eighteenth century owners. Some distance to the south of these buildings were found the remains of a circular building that may have been the Manorial devecote.³⁶
   The earliest dateable find within the enclosure appears to have been a silver penny of King John, but that does not of course establish