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Monument details

Summary

Fragments of a 6th century Anglo Saxon glass claw beaker, found at Bexhill Marsh, Sittingbourne, now in the British Museum, possibly indicate an inhumation.

Monument Types

• BURIAL? (BURIAL, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 599 AD)
• FINDSPOT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 599 AD)

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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Fragments of an Anglo Saxon glass claw beaker, found at Bexhill Marsh, Sittingbourne, now in the British Museum, accession number 1905 4-18 10 (1) Claw beaker 1905 4-18 10: In fragments, dark amber, Bexhill Marsh, Sittingbourne. From the Collection of Humphrey Wood of Chatham (2) [TQ910644] Box Hill Marsh (3)(a) A 6th century claw beaker from a burial at Milton-next-Sittingbourne listed BM 1905 4-18 10 (4). Additional reference (5,6).

<1> Archaeologia 107 1982 64 (V Evison) (OS Card Reference). SKE37303.

<2> Letter from BM 10/6/87 (OS Card Reference). SKE46098.

<3> Tithe Map Milton 1842 (OS Card Reference). SKE50586.

<4> F1 ASP 25-NOV-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42290.

<5> Dark age Britain 1956 140 159 (ed D.B.Harden) (OS Card Reference). SKE39585.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 96 SW 57 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4992.

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