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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 19 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Middle Bronze Age burial & armillae |
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Summary
Bronze Age inhumation with two gold armillae were found about a mile from Canterbury during construction of the railway in 1860.
| Grid Reference: | TR 15 57 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BURIAL (BURIAL, Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- BRACELET (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
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Two M.B.A. gold armillae with a skeleton were found about a mile from Canterbury in making the railway to Dover in 1860. (1,2)
<1> Arch Cant 15 1863 43-4 illus (E Pretty) (OS Card Reference). SKE34722.
<2> P S A 2nd ser 24 1911-12 45 (OS Card Reference). SKE48447.
<3> Thames Valley Archaeological Services, 2002, Nunnery Fields Hospital, Canterbury, Kent: An Archaeological Desk Based Assessment (Unpublished document). SKe8109.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 15 1863 43-4 illus (E Pretty). [Mapped feature: #43379 burial, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: P S A 2nd ser 24 1911-12 45. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Thames Valley Archaeological Services. 2002. Nunnery Fields Hospital, Canterbury, Kent: An Archaeological Desk Based Assessment. |
