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Stone
Chapel lies just north of the A2, west of Faversham, Kent.
In
1967, the Sittingbourne and Swale Archaeological Research Group,
which at that time was made up largely of schoolboys, asked to be
allowed to clean up the site, which had probably not been touched
since it had been excavated in Victorian times.
They
advanced on the jungle of foliage, and were rewarded, many nettle-stings
and bramble-scratches later, by the re-emergence of the chapel ruins.
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The
sight that greeted us on the first day...
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The
ruined walls of the chapel rise, just about, above a sea
of nettles and brambles.
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A
couple of days later...
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...the
floor of the chapel is reached.
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The
outside of the east end
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The east end during cleaning
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...and
after excavation by Colonel Meates.
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Stone
Chapel as it is today
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Ralph
on the left, a future professor of archaeology on the right
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