About twenty five yards inside Chapel Wood, behind the Bungalow named "Hazel Lodge," a Roman Hippocaust was discovered about thirty years ago.
   Some seventy years ago three Druidical Stones were found in Abbots Wood, Peckham Wood Corner. They surrounded a small pond. The exact site was where The Rising Sun Tea Rooms, London Road, now stand. The stones resemble the Coldrum Stones at Trottiscliffe.
   When the water mains were being laid along Hartley Bottom a cave was discovered about 10 feet wide with Roman tiles on the floor.

Roman Settlement discovered on Eastwood Farm.  
Whilst digging a hole on his farm during October 1957, for the disposal of a dead pig, Mr G Self struck a patch of disturbed soil. This he interpreted must indicate a hole having previously been dug. His suspicions aroused, he was prompted to explore further and soon recovered fragments of very course pottery and some bone. The find was at once reported to the authorities, at the Lullingstone Roman Villa. Subsequently a team of young Kent archaeologists who specialise in such newly discovered sites arrived on the scene and commenced a series of trial trenches on a modified grid plan. Their objective was to establish:-
        The nature of the settlement
        The extent of the remains
        A provisional dating
   Work, which is still in progress, has resulted in the gleaning of much valuable information both historical and archaeological, and "Eastwood" may one day have good cause to be of special note to those particularly concerned in the Antiquities of Kent. The primary feature, as yet, is a neatly cut gulley originally some thirty inches deep with nearly vertical sides running down the hillside. This has so far been traced for 100 feet but it is probable that it extends further and may

form one side of a rectangular enclosure. The lowest part of the gully contained the skeleton of a dog and a complete native vessel broken by earth pressure. Sealing this layer was a bed of black occupation debris, some ten inches deep. This second layer contained an amazing number of finds. Of these, three complete bronze brooches are perhaps of the most interest particularly as they can be confidently dated to the early Romano-British period 40 – 70 A.D. Two small pieces of vessel glass and parts of a quern (corn grinding utensil) probably imported from the Rhineland, were also found. About 500 pieces of pottery have so far been recovered, of which certain Belgic and Gaulish (French) wares can be identified. Of these pieces four of Samian ware (Terra Sigillata) are the most important from the dating viewpoint, and one a decorated fragment depicting the Roman God of Wine Bacchus can be dated 69 – 79 A.D. By far the largest proportion of the pottery finds are products of native kilns and are classified as "coarse wares". The importance of this native ware is its great variety of forms and types which can be dated, at least provisionally, 40–80 A.D. Hence this group will collectively form a sound chronological basis for future discoveries covering Romano-British pottery in Kent and district of 1st century A.D. date. From the number of finds it is felt fairly certain that a fixed form of settlement existed here in the form of either a farmstead (villa) or village site. The dating for such a settlement is provisionally fixed at 40 –80 A.D. but this may be modified by future finds. Traces of buildings are as yet lacking but it is hoped that an examination of the whole area next year will reveal some positive form of settlement.
   Many small finds have been reported from all parts of both Parishes some definitely of Roman origin and others of even earlier periods.