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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 96 SE 20 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Anglo-Saxon burial, Teynham Street, Teynham, Swale |
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Summary
A richly furnished Anglo-Saxon grave was found in 1894 in brickfields near Teynham. Items found in the grave included a gold and garnet disc brooch, two circular gold pendants and two beads of porphyritic marble. The finds were sold at Sotheby's in 1895.
The site is at the base of a gentle south-east facing slope, on the edge of marshland. OD 5-7m.
Grid Reference: | TQ 968 638 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ96SE |
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Parish: | TEYNHAM, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INHUMATION (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
Associated Finds
- AMULET (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
- BEAD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
- BROOCH (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
- BUCKLE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
- KNIFE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
- PENDANT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
- SHERD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
- SHIELD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
- SPEAR (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
- SWORD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
Full description
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A circular brooch, two circular pendants of gold also a circular amulet of porphyritic marble and a bead of same material, from a grave in the neighbourhood [of Teynham] acquired by Dr. Kennard in 1894. Sold at Sotheby's, 12 March 1895. Brooch and pendants bought by Pitt-Rivers. (1) A richly furnished Anglo-Saxon grave was discovered in April 1894 near Teynham. No particulars of the excavation are forthcoming. (2) [TQ 956 637] Inhumation cemetery (4). A gold and garnet disc brooch with a star design, a gold and garnet pendant (5), an openwork pendant of braided gold wire, and two circular pendant beads of porphyritic marble, threaded with silver wire, were exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, London in May 1894 by George Payne. They were "found during the past month in a grave discovered in the neighbourhood of Teynham". In the possession of D. F. Kennard (3). The brickfields which apparently produced these finds were near Teynham station. [See also TQ 96 SE 6 and 39.] (3-5).
<1> Maidstone Museum Arch Gazetteer MS in progress (OS Card Reference). SKE46425.
<2> VCH Kent 1 1908 373 386 AS Remains (I Chalkley-Gould) (OS Card Reference). SKE50854.
<3> PSA 2nd Series 15 1893-5 184 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE48813.
<4> Gaz Early AS Burial Sites 1964 139 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43484.
<5> The Arts in Early England 4 1915 737 (G Baldwin Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE50101.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | OS Card Reference: Maidstone Museum Arch Gazetteer MS in progress. |
<2> | OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 1 1908 373 386 AS Remains (I Chalkley-Gould). |
<3> | OS Card Reference: PSA 2nd Series 15 1893-5 184 (G Payne). |
<4>XY | OS Card Reference: Gaz Early AS Burial Sites 1964 139 (A Meaney). [Mapped feature: #35441 Cemetery, ] |
<5> | OS Card Reference: The Arts in Early England 4 1915 737 (G Baldwin Brown). |