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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 16 SE 11
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Early Medieval vessel, Stanes Hill,Westbere

Summary

Small Saxon pot from Staines Hill, Westbere is in the Royal Museum, Canterbury. No details of its exact provenance or date of find are known.

The find spot is on the brow of a gentle south-east facing ridge. OD 35-40m. The Westbere I site is 900m north-east. The Canterbury-Thanet Roman road runs c.60m to the north.

Grid Reference:	TR 190 612
Map Sheet:	TR16SE
Parish:	WESTBERE, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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Pot "from Staines Hill" Westbere in Canterbury Museum, believed by Kendrick to be Saxon. (1) The pot refered to by Ince is probably the small carinated Saxon pot on exhibition in the Royal Museum, Canterbury, 'from Westbere'. (a). No futher details of its exact provenance or date of find are known. (2) Grid reference is given as TR 190 612. (3)

<1> Dr Ince 9 8 32 (OS Card Reference). SKE41508.

<2> Rec 6" (O G S Crawford undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE49046.

<3> Oral - F Jenkins F S A (Hon Corr) (OS Card Reference). SKE47888.

<4> F1 CFW 19-NOV-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42651.

<5> Gaz of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 137 (A L S Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43510.

<6> Field report for monument TR 16 SE 11 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5560.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	OS Card Reference: Dr Ince 9 8 32.
<2>	OS Card Reference: Rec 6" (O G S Crawford undated).
<3>	OS Card Reference: Oral - F Jenkins F S A (Hon Corr).
<4>	OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 19-NOV-63.
<5>	OS Card Reference: Gaz of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 137 (A L S Meaney).
<6>	Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 16 SE 11 - November, 1963.