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Monument details

Summary

Anglo-Saxon 6th century buckle nr Chilton Farm, Alkham along with other finds in 1974. Donated to Dover Museum in 1995

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Possible, Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD? to 599 AD?)

Associated Finds

• BUCKLE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD? to 599 AD?)

Full description

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Metal detector finds from 1974 in fields above Chilton Farm, Alkham. Donanted to Dover Museum in March 1995 and identified by Cathy Haith of British Museum.

1. Cast copper shoe-shaped belt rivet Anglo Saxon 6th century. (TR 24 SE 94)

2. Cast copper buckle tongue with punched ring-and-dot ornament on shield with rounded base and punched dots on faceted curved tip. 6th century Anglo-Saxon.

3. Crescent shaped copper alloy bead or pendant with circular perforation decorated with dots. Date uncertain though possibly Iron Age.

4. Silver gilt fragment of disc brooch decorated with transverse ridgesand inner border of zig-zag. Centre pierced by rivet, back has cast zig-zags and traversing ridges. Anglo Saxon late 6th century. (1)

<1> Keith Parfitt, 1995, Anglo-Saxon Finds from Chilton Farm, Alkham, pers Comm Keith Parfitt to KCC 27/3/1995 (Unpublished document). SKE7971.

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