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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 14 SE 11 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | C6th AD cemetery, Lyminge |
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Summary
6th century Saxon inhumation cemetery found during railway excavations in 1885. Finds included swords, shield bosses, brooches and a bracteate.
The site lies almost at the base of a gentle west facing slope OD 105m.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1647 4070 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR14SE |
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| Parish: | LYMINGE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- CEMETERY (CEMETERY, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 550 AD to 599 AD)
Full description
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[TR 16474070 - sited from map, scale 6" = 1 mile] In 1890, a cemetery, with grave goods probably dating from the late 6th century AD or a little earlier, was found in the cutting of the railway (now disused) just north of the bridge carrying the Lyminge-Paddlesworth road. The site lies almost at the base of of a gentle west facing slope OD 105m.
"In 1890, Canon Jenkins, a noted Lyminge antiquary, reported to the Society of Antiquaries that a number of burials of Saxon date had been discovered during the cutting of the Elham Valley railway line. The burial goods included a garnet set radiate-headed brooch and a knobbed cruciform brooch, the foot of which terminates in an animal head. Spearheads and shield bosses were also found."
(1) Additional bibliography. (2)
<1> Arch Cant 69 1955 38 (A Warhurst) (OS Card Reference). SKE35451.
<2> Gazette of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 127 (ALS Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43568.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 69 1955 38 (A Warhurst). [Mapped feature: #42599 Cemetery, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Gazette of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 127 (ALS Meaney). |
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