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Monument details

HER Number:TR 34 NW 1
Type of record:Monument
Name:An Anglo Saxon grave, Sutton Downs, Sutton, Dover

Summary

An Anglo-Saxon / early Medieval grave discovered c.1876, next to a cart track to Winkland Farm. Apparently it held Anglo-Saxon beads and iron objects.

The site lies on a north facing slope of the Sutton Downs (chalk ridge) at OD 70m. Sutton Parish church lies 800m to the north.


Grid Reference:TR 334 485
Map Sheet:TR34NW
Parish:RIPPLE, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • (Undated)

Full description

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An Anglo-Saxon / early Medieval grave discovered c.1876, next to a cart track to Winkland Farm. Apparently held Anglo-Saxon beads and iron objects.
The site lies on a north facing slope of the Sutton Downs ( a chalk ridge) at OD 70m. Sutton Parish church lies 800m to the north.


Andrew Richardson, 2000, Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent (Unpublished document).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---Unpublished document: Andrew Richardson. 2000.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