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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 04 NE 17 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Burial site, Olantigh Mount. Wye |
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Summary
An inhumation burial site of 3 known graves. Pre-1800 two skeletons were found on the side of the mount, approx 1.5m below surface. Near these were several pieces of iron and two probable iron spearheads. Pre-1842 when the mount top was levelled more bones were found. There appears to have been barrows near the road on the Wye side of the mount.
Olantigh Mount is an isolated hill, near the base of the Sour valley, overlooking the river. OD 55m.
| Grid Reference: | TR 0599 4823 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR04NE |
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| Parish: | WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BURIAL (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD (at some time) to 1065 AD (at some time))
Full description
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An inhumation burial site of 3 known graves. Pre-1800 two skeletons were found on the side of the mount, approx 1.5m below surface. Near these were several pieces of iron and two probable iron spearheads. Pre-1842 when the mount top was levelled more bones were found. There appears to have been barrows near the road on the Wye side of the mount.
Olantigh Mount is an isolated hill, formerly known as Barrow Hill, near the base of the Sour valley, overlooking the river. OD 55m.
Andrew Richardson, 2000, Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent (Unpublished document). SKE29253.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Andrew Richardson. 2000. Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent. |
