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Monument details

Summary

A richly furnished Anglo-Saxon grave was found in 1894 in brickfields near Teynham. Items found in the grave included a gold and garnet disc brooch, two circular gold pendants and two beads of porphyritic marble. The finds were sold at Sotheby's in 1895.

The site is at the base of a gentle south-east facing slope, on the edge of marshland. OD 5-7m.

Monument Types

• INHUMATION (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)

Associated Finds

• AMULET (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
• BEAD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
• BROOCH (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
• BUCKLE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
• KNIFE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
• PENDANT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD?)
• SHERD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
• SHIELD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
• SPEAR (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)
• SWORD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 700 AD)

Full description

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A circular brooch, two circular pendants of gold also a circular amulet of porphyritic marble and a bead of same material, from a grave in the neighbourhood [of Teynham] acquired by Dr. Kennard in 1894. Sold at Sotheby's, 12 March 1895. Brooch and pendants bought by Pitt-Rivers. (1) A richly furnished Anglo-Saxon grave was discovered in April 1894 near Teynham. No particulars of the excavation are forthcoming. (2) [TQ 956 637] Inhumation cemetery (4). A gold and garnet disc brooch with a star design, a gold and garnet pendant (5), an openwork pendant of braided gold wire, and two circular pendant beads of porphyritic marble, threaded with silver wire, were exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, London in May 1894 by George Payne. They were "found during the past month in a grave discovered in the neighbourhood of Teynham". In the possession of D. F. Kennard (3). The brickfields which apparently produced these finds were near Teynham station. [See also TQ 96 SE 6 and 39.] (3-5).

<1> Maidstone Museum Arch Gazetteer MS in progress (OS Card Reference). SKE46425.

<2> VCH Kent 1 1908 373 386 AS Remains (I Chalkley-Gould) (OS Card Reference). SKE50854.

<3> PSA 2nd Series 15 1893-5 184 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE48813.

<4> Gaz Early AS Burial Sites 1964 139 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43484.

<5> The Arts in Early England 4 1915 737 (G Baldwin Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE50101.

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