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Monument details

Summary

Two Anglo-Saxon inhumations found in 1910 with grave goods including a spearhead and a `shoe-shaped stud'. The finds are in Maidstone Museum.

NGR places site at entrance to a disused gravel pit, on the north-north-east facing slope, just above a stream. OD approx. 50m.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

• SPEAR (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
• STUD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 8271 5388] Anglo Saxon Burial found A.D. 1910. [NAT] (1) Anglo-Saxon Interment found in 1910, an iron spearhead and a bronze shoe-shaped stud found. Confirmed. (2-4) Siting falls in waste ground at the entrance to a disused gravel-pit. (5) Additional bibliography. (6)
NGR places site at entrance to a disused gravel pit, on the north-north-east facing slope, just above a stream. OD approx. 50m.

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> KAS 6" Maidstone Museum (undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE45643.

<3> Maidstone Mus 6" (OS Card Reference). SKE46270.

<4> Arch Cant 70 (1956) 112 (V J Evison) (OS Card Reference). SKE35463.

<5> F1 ASP 25-Jun-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42285.

<6> A Gazeteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 126 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE32784.

<7> Field report for monument TQ 85 SW 7 - June, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4484.

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