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Monument details

HER Number:TR 26 NE 14
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Great Brooksend, Birchington

Summary

A possible Anglo-Saxon cemetery, no graves have been recorded. Observed on pre-1998 aerial photographs the crop-marks of a barrow group thought to be 7th or 8th century.

The site lies approx. 500m. South-east of the Brooksend cemetery, between OD 15-20m.


Grid Reference:TR 291 686
Map Sheet:TR26NE
Parish:BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • CEMETERY (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

Full description

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A possible Anglo-Saxon cemetery, no graves have been recorded. Observed on pre-1998 aerial photographs the crop-marks of a barrow group thought to be 7th or 8th century.
The site lies approx. 500m. South-east of the Brooksend cemetery, between OD 15-20m.


Andrew Richardson, 2000, Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent (Unpublished document). SKE29253.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Unpublished document: Andrew Richardson. 2000. Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent.