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Monument details

Summary

In the 1950s a Saxon bronze buckle with the two rivets for securing it to the belt but lacking a prong, was found at Norbury, Rochester Road, Aylesford. It is kept at Maidstone Museum.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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A bronze buckle, lacking the prong but with the two rivets for securing it to the belt, was found in the garden of Mrs C.P.M. Hart, of Norbury, Rochester Road, Aylesford. In Maidstone Museum, Acc No. 581955B [Compared to a buckle figured in Faussetts Inventorium Sepulchrale, Plate X, No. 4 - presumably Saxon.] (1) TQ 73365916. The exact find spot was pointed out to the Investigator by Mrs C.P.M. Hart in person. A.M. survey has been carried out. (2) Aylesford circa 1954, a bronze buckle was found in the garden of Norbury, Rochester Road. (3)

<1> Arch Cant 69 1955 208 (OS Card Reference). SKE35447.

<2> F1 ASP 20-MAY-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42208.

<3> Anglo-Saxon Jewellery 1950 118 (R F Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE33093.

<4> Gaz of Early Anglo Saxon Burial Sites 1964 108 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43496.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 75 NW 20 - May, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3873.

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