Jacob Scott investigates five odd stones around the Precinct Gardens that were possibly amongst the earliest features of the site. Part of the physical and cultural landscape from before Roman occupation, Sarsen stones have been reused and reinterpreted for thousands of years and yet still hold many mysteries.

Mary Covert discovers the exceptional Ringerike gravestone fragment reused as rubble in the south tower of the west facade, a rare survical from the pre-Conquest Cathedral cemetery when Rochester sat poised on the edge of the vast Danelaw.

Dr. Michael J. Swanton studies a fragment of a cross found in the vicinity of the pre-Conquest Cathedral with evidence of burning, perhaps from one of the recorded Viking attacks of Rochester.

Featuring the hindquarters of a four-legged beast, set beside an interlace panel, this fragment possibly from a tomb is the oldest sculpture yet discovered at the site.

Two Caen stone fragments of an elaborate piece of sculpture in high relief may have originated from the shrine of St William of Perth.

A relief of a Romanesque bishop once adorning the West Facade possibly depicts St Paulinus.

Romanesque sculpture reused in the spandrels of the Great West Window removed during Cottingham’s 1820s restoration, together with the evidence from other resued fragments in the vicinity, make it possible to piece together the form of the upper portions of the Romanesque west facade.

Three plastered tufa stones, one depicting the shoulders of a Bishop with a halo possibly originated from a small annex on the east of the building proposed to be a reliquary for the bones of these two saints.

Jeffrey West studies a fragment from the West Facade featuring a singing head.

Report on the assessment and treatment of the reredos stone from the chantry chapel of Bishop John de Sheppey, c.1340, by Carla Learoyd.

Fragments from an exceptional monument discovered in the ruins of ‘Gundulf Tower’ in 1922 possibly formed part of shrines of St Paulinus and Ithamar reconstruced by Bishop Hamo de Hythe in the fourteenth century.

Archaelogist Graham Keevill reports on a small parapet now adorning a length of the Roman City Wall/South Cloister Garth originally situated atop the late 15th-century clerestory of the Presbytery.

This elaborate piscina or lavabo bowl was used to dispose of water in the Mass. It was recently discovered reused as a garden feature at a local property in the Precinct.

Featuring a hog with an apple in its mouth, this quadripartite boss possibly originated in the cellarer’s range of the monastic priory.

John Blair reconstructs the limoges enamel tomb of Bishop Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College, Oxford, before its defacement by iconoclasts and reconstruction as its current form in the seventeenth century.

Heritage Officer Jacob Scott traces a large stone crucifix featuring prominently in historic photos of the Lapidarium collection, now tentatively identified as the finial once adorning the apex of the South Quire Transept overlooking the High Street.

Ieva Stradina’s in-depth conservation report of one of five Somer family heralds reveals the story behind a tomb destroyed around the time of the English Civil War.

These arms belong to the Cayley family of Brompton Yorkshire, who were created baronets in 1661.

A previously unrecorded thirteenth-century altar slab identified within a garden feature at King’s Orchard.