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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 25 SW 27 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Saxon skeletal remains |
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Summary
Possible Saxon inhumation found by soldiers digging trenches in July 1944, on the Barham Downs just off the main Dover road at Heden.
| Grid Reference: | TR 20 51 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR25SW |
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| Parish: | BARHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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| KINGSTON, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HUMAN REMAINS (HUMAN REMAINS, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
Full description
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Burial of a man found by soldiers digging trenches in July 1944, on the Barham Downs just off the main Dover road at Heden. No proper record made, and no archaeological material recovered, but Prof. A.J.E. Cove considered that the remains were those of a middle-aged male of Saxon stock. (1) Additional bibliography. (2)
<1> Arch Cant vol LVII 1944 71-72 (OS Card Reference). SKE36441.
<2> CW Phillips DA Index (OS Card Reference). SKE39539.
<3> Gaz of Early AS burial sites 1964 108 (ALS Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43522.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant vol LVII 1944 71-72. [Mapped feature: #48017 burial, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: CW Phillips DA Index. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Gaz of Early AS burial sites 1964 108 (ALS Meaney). |
