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St Mildred's Church, Canterbury
IT is not uncommon to find fragments of Roman work
in the walls of medieval buildings which, occupy or are
adjacent to Roman sites, and these remains are sometimes
the only evidence of the earlier settlement,1 as at
Eynesford Castle, in this county. They usually consist of
tiles or thin bricks, generally more or less broken, and
sometimes of pieces of hard concrete or mortar built in
at random with the ordinary materials of the walls ;2
but
1 Some small lumps of
concrete which, were found in the walls of the
church at Frittenden, in this county, during the repairs in 1846,
were,
until recently, the only signs of Roman occupation in that
neighbourhood
; but in the course of last year two sepulchral urns were dug up
within about a mile of the church.
2 It is well known that Roman
mortar and concrete may very frequently
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