Heather Knight

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Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee 🎭🏺

A brown which has an image of a die stamp overlaid with black and white text that reads “War Helms and Weapon Dancers Did the Lynstead die stamp help make the Sutton Hoo helmet? Find out more with expert Andrew Richardson on Wednesday 5th August 2026 8.30pm The Old Brewery Store information and tickets online or the Visitor Information Centre in the Market Place”
The vertical millstones and the trough at Chart Mills, Faversham.
A Facebook post by Faversham Weather Station. The green area in the top left is SE England and the green area in the bottom right is France. The darker blue in the bottom left is the English Channel, the bright blue area in the top right is a thunderstorm over Kent. The yellow dots are lightning strikes.
The water wheel that powered the gun powder mill in a timber and stone shed.
A timber framed house with a 19th-century shop window decorated for Christmas with two life sized cardboard cut out William Shakespeares wearing Christmas hats next to a fake fire place. Angels and stars are hanging in the door window.
Detail from of wood cut from a ballad “ Man in the Moon Drinks Claret”. A man standing on a half moon with a jug in one hand and a wine glass in the other.
Image of King Stephen from Matthew Paris’s Historia Anglorum.
A newspaper advert inviting people to attend the inaugural meeting of the Faversham Society that was to be held in the Guildhall. The top line reads “Cherish the Past: Adorn the Present: Create for the Future”
Oak door in Wells Cathedral with decorative iron hinges and scroll work.
A jumble of stained glass fragments forming abstract patterns in a window in a side chapel at Wells Cathedral.
The Jesse window with vivid green, yellow, red and blue glass depicts a family tree, Jesse being the father of King David.
Gurney Manor, cream coloured render stone and timber building with a tiled roof.
Hop bines decorating the front of a timber framed house in Faversham.
One of the flower beds in the Faversham Fleur de Lis Museum garden with masonry window tracery behind.
People looking at the plants for sale in the Market Place, Faversham. The green and white building behind is the Guildhall.
Laurie’s second slide explaining that in medieval plays playwrights asked actors to go in to exit the stage and to go out to exit , but later, players are asked to go out to leave and go in to enter.
Nearly 2m tall cast iron figure of a man standing on a concrete loading bay between two metal and timber pillars. The concrete is covered in algae and seaweed. The figure looks out to sea and chalk cliffs.
The 13th century masonry building which may have been a dormitory or guest house.
The four panels by Ervin Bossanyi installed in the southeastern transept in 1960.
Archaeologists digging the remains of 19th century houses.
A stained glass window depicting the Tree of Life. Either side of stone window sill are vases of daffodils.
A fluffy tortoiseshell cat asleep in a jigsaw puzzle box on a table with a partly completed jigsaw behind her.
A stuffed polar bear in a glass case at the top of the stairs at Dover Museum. The bear was bought back to Dover by the Medical Officer of the 1894-7 Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition.
Bronze copy of Albert Bruce Joy’s statue of William Harvey on a stone plinth outside the Emergency Dept at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford Kent.
Timber archway at the entrance to Holy Ghost Alley.
Han Li standing in the Society of Antiquaries’ meeting room holding a glass of sherry.
A bollard with the Faversham coat of arms surrounded by flowers on the plant stall under the Guildhall with the red town pump in the background.
MOLA’s Pint of Archaeology flyer with a glass wine bottle and bartmann jug with the address of The Roebuck, 50 Great Dover Street SE1 4YH
A white egret standing on the edge of a very calm sea. The sand is a very dark brown and the sun is just coming up and the sky is a pale blue with pink clouds. There are small boats anchored in the bay.
Oak double doors with glass panel above. The door surround is limestone, the wall is a mix of flint and limestone and brick. The buildings opposite are reflected in the glass.
Two panels of salvaged stained glass fragments.
Museum display case containing Clangers and the Soup Dragon.
Ornate door handle in the shape of an animal (possibly a boar) with a ring through its nose and ironwork scrolls on a timber door with iron nails.
4m high depiction of Queen Anne at Hayloft Point, the site of the Boar’s Head playhouse.
Exterior oak door with ornately carved door surround at Horton Court in Gloucestershire. Horton Court was renovated in c1520 by William Knight who later became the Bishop of Bath and Wells
Two windows, one depicting spring and the other summer.
A medieval pointed doorway and oak door.
A long haired tortoise shell cat and a ginger and white cat sitting on a windowsill.
The woodcut from the broadside ballad “The Man in the Moon Drinks Clarret. As it was lately sung at the Curtain, Holy-Well”. A 17th century gentleman standing on a crescent moon with a bartmann jug in his left hand and a glass in his raised right hand.
Two broken 16th century candlesticks on a table.
The steam locomotive Britannia
Three knitted kings, a star and a Christmas tree on top of a post box with a lamppost and a timber framed house in the background.
Sunrise over London looking east towards Tower Bridge
A full house in the meeting room at the Society of Antiquaries ahead of James Wright’s lecture.
A green and cream silk braid, and a red, white and blue silk braid laying across my hand.
Green eyed short haired ginger cat laying on a kitchen worktop.
A green eyed long haired tortoise shell cat with long white fur under her chin.
Large brown mid 19th century stoneware jug with impressed decoration around the shoulder.
Brown circular plaque with white lettering saying “Near this site stood the Curtain Theatre 1577 - 1627”