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Monument details

Summary

An earthen jug, of the "early Saxon period", was found by Smith in the barrow to the west of Caesar's Camp, near Folkestone (beleived to be TR 23 NW 1). A fowl's spur and some bones of the foot were also found. In 1940 excavation work for a pillbox uncovered further eveidence of this secondary burial on the north-east edge of the bowl barrow at a depth of approximately 4' 5". The burial was approximately aligned nw-se. No human bones were recovered although seven teeth and some bones of ox, sheep and a small carnivore were found.

Cherry Garden Hill is a Lower Chalk spur of the North Downs. OD 125-130m.

Monument Types

• INHUMATION (Secondary burial, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD? to 650 AD?)

Associated Finds

• JUG (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD? to 650 AD?)
• POT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD? to 650 AD?)

Full description

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[TR 20833801] An earthen jug, of the "early Saxon period", was found by Smith in the barrow to the west of Caesar's Camp, near Folkestone. A fowl's spur and some bones of the foot were also found. The jug was deposited in the Museum of Mr. Rolfe of Sandwich. (1)(2)

No further information on this jug or its present whereabouts was gained, Rolfe being dead many years and his collection dispersed. The description suggest it came from the B.A. barrow on Cherry Garden Hill (TR 23 NW 1) in which there was a probable secondary burial. No other barrow was traced in this direction along the main escarpment. (5)

TR 208380. Cherry Garden Hill, Folkestone. ?Inhumation burial, secondary in a barrow. (TR 23 NW 1) c.1848 C R Smith found a jug of Frankish type, with a fowl's spur and some of the foot bones in a barrow within an earthwork on top of the hill, west of Caesar's Camp. (4, 7)

Mentioned in report (6).

<1> Coll Ant 2 1852 219 (CR Smith) (OS Card Reference). SKE39099.

<2> Unknown, 1851, Unknown in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities, PSA 2 1851 175 (Article in serial). SKE8036.

<4> A Meaney, 1964, A Gazetter of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites, page 120 (Monograph). SKE7939.

<5> Field report for monument TR 23 NW 25 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5610.

<6> RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKE6910.

<7> Page, W. (ed), 1908, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Kent Volumne I, Page 364 (Monograph). SKE7882.

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