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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NW 16 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Graves, Kemsing, Sevenoaks |
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Summary
Two Early Medieval inhumations, one with a spearhead, found west of Kemsing Church.
The site lies below the Downland scarp, and slopes towards the south-south-west. OD 100m.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 547 588 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NW |
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| Parish: | KEMSING, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HUMAN REMAINS (HUMAN REMAINS, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- SPEAR (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
Full description
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(TQ Area 548 588) Two skeletons were found in 1880 lying close together with a spearhead in O.S. field No. 24, 750 yards west of Kemsing Church. One lay with feet to the east, the other with feet to the west. (1) Both were reinterred in the churchyard. (a) (1-3)
Andrew Richardson, 2000, Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent (Unpublished document). SKE29253.
<1> Kemsing Church Register, 24.12.1880 (OS Card Reference). SKE45663.
<2> Sevenoaks Essays 1931, 89-91 (G Ward) (OS Card Reference). SKE49445.
<3> A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 126 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE32789.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Andrew Richardson. 2000. Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent. |
| <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Kemsing Church Register, 24.12.1880. [Mapped feature: #30877 graves, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Sevenoaks Essays 1931, 89-91 (G Ward). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 126 (A Meaney). |
