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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 302 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Saxon cemetery at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury |
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Summary
Saxon cemetery excavated at the west end of St Augustine's Abbey Church and to the south of the church between 1960-78. Much human loose bone was found, the product of disturbed burials from unmarked graves, together with a number of articulated skeletons. All sexes and ages were represented among the bodies found suggesting that this was a lay cemetery. Associated grave goods included a 6th or 7th century buckle and an 8th century scramasax.
The site lies outside and to south-east the city wall, alongside the Richborough road. OD 15-20m.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1540 5773 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- CEMETERY (CEMETERY, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 799 AD)
Associated Finds
- BUCKLE (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 699 AD)
- SEAX (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 700 AD to 799 AD)
| Protected Status: | Scheduled Monument 1016844: ST AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY |
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Full description
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A Saxon cemetery was revealed during excavations at the W end of St Augustine's Norman Abbey Church, 1955, by A Saunders. (TR 15405773 - see illustration card for plan). There had been much reburying and many burials were jumbled, but parts of 14 articulated skeletons were found and 19 skulls. (1-2) Further excavations, 1976-1978, by H Woods. (See illustration card for plan). (3)
<1> Md Arch 22 1978 30 39-40 plan (A Saunders) (OS Card Reference). SKE46624.
<2> Helen Geake, 1997, The use of grave-goods in conversion-period England, c.600-c.850 (Monograph). SKE54254.
<3> St Augustine's Abbey:Rpt on Excavs 1960-78:KAS Mon IV 1988 81-82 (D Sherlock H Woods) (OS Card Reference). SKE49603.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Md Arch 22 1978 30 39-40 plan (A Saunders). [Mapped feature: #43577 burials, ] |
| <2> | Monograph: Helen Geake. 1997. The use of grave-goods in conversion-period England, c.600-c.850. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: St Augustine's Abbey:Rpt on Excavs 1960-78:KAS Mon IV 1988 81-82 (D Sherlock H Woods). |
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