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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 NW 60
Type of record:Monument
Name:Jutish inhumation burial, Strood, Rochester

Summary

A Jutish inhumation burial cut into chalk, found in 1918 by soldiers laying a drain at Rochester about half a mile west of the Medway. The burial included a shield boss, a spearhead and two pieces of iron. It was interpreted as of Jutish type from the 5th or 6th centuries.

Grid Reference:TQ 72 67
Map Sheet:TQ76NW
Parish:ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • INHUMATION (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 469 AD)

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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A skeleton buried in the chalk was discovered on 26.10.1918 by soldiers laying a drain at Rochester about half a mile west of the Medway "not far from the spot where the Pilgrims crossed the river." Col.H.A.Haines(1) reported that it lay with head to west and was accompanied by a shield boss, a spearhead and two pieces of iron. Dr. C. Hercules Read (2) pronounced the burial 'Jutish of the 5th or 6th c.' (1-3)


Andrew Richardson, 2000, Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent (Unpublished document).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

<1> `The Times' 29.10.1918 9 (OS Card Reference). SKE32736.

<2> `The Times' 31.10.1918 10 (OS Card Reference). SKE32737.

<3> JBAA New Ser 24 1918 281-2 (OS Card Reference). SKE44850.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Unpublished document: Andrew Richardson. 2000. Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent.
<1>XYOS Card Reference: `The Times' 29.10.1918 9. [Mapped feature: #22936 burial, ]
<2>OS Card Reference: `The Times' 31.10.1918 10.
<3>OS Card Reference: JBAA New Ser 24 1918 281-2.