Geology of Kent the northern slopes of the Downs where they are known as brickearths. Landslips are known along the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, the coast near Reculver and either side of Folkestone and indeed the former coastline west of Folkestone overlooking Romney Marsh. Geology of Kent The geology of Kent in southeast England largely consists of a succession of northward dipping late Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks overlain by a suite of unconsolidated deposits of more recent origin. Kent is the south-easternmost county in England. It is bounded on the north by the River Thames and the North Sea,
Kingdom of Kent county of Kent. Knowledge of Anglo-Saxon Kent comes from scholarly study of Late Anglo-Saxon texts such as the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" and the "Ecclesiastical History of the English People", as well as archaeological evidence such as that left by early medieval cemeteries and settlements, and toponymical (place-name) evidence. In the Romano-British period, the area of modern Kent that lay east of the River Medway was a "civitas" known as "Cantiaca". Its name had been taken from an older Common Brittonic place-name, "Cantium" ("corner of land" or "land on the edge") used in the preceding pre-Roman Iron Age, although the extent of