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Monument details

Summary

Anglo-Saxon inhumation with grave goods including a buckle, strap end and knife found in a chalk pit on Court Lodge Farm in 1932.

The burial probably lay at the base of the Downland scarp, on the south facing slope of a spur. OD 125-127m.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
• INHUMATION (BURIAL, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)

Associated Finds

• BUCKLE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
• KNIFE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
• STRAP END (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)

Full description

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On 31.12.1932, a skeleton, accompanied by a buckle, a strap end and a knife, was found in a chalk pit on Court Lodge Farm, Harrietsham. The burial is dated as late Anglo-Saxon by N. Cook. (1) [TQ 86525403] Burial sited at Lat. 51 degrees, 15 feet, 16 inches Long. Nought degrees, 40 feet, 24 inches E. (2) Court Lodge Farm Manager states that when this part of the farmland was reclaimed from scrub recently, there was nothing to show that a chalk pit had ever existed here. The nearest pit of any size is at the field edge, 315.0m. to the WNW of the above given siting. The farm has had several owners since 1932 and nothing is known about the finds. (3) Additional bibliography. (4)

<1> Arch Cant 45 1933 xliv (OS Card Reference). SKE35167.

<2> Letter (N Cook 18.3.1933) [File C R 8858] (OS Card Reference). SKE46068.

<3> D A Britain Index Kent 41a (OS Card Reference). SKE39541.

<4> F1 ASP 26-Jun-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42309.

<5> A Gazeteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 123 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE32782.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 85 SE 4 - June, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4450.

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