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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 35 SE 67 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Mill Hill, Deal |
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Summary
Early-medieval cemetery with 76 recorded graves was found between 1900- 1990.
Thw site lies on the south-east end of Mill Hill (ridge of Upper Chalk), overlooking the sea to the East. OD 34-39m.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3630 5080 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR35SE |
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| Parish: | DEAL, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- CEMETERY (CEMETERY, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 599 AD)
Full description
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TR 3630 5080 Before 1908 on the waterworks Hill about one mile SW of Deal and just behind Walmer, several Anglo-Saxon graves were noticed in section at the top of a chalk pit and several characteristic finds were recorded. These included beads, a circular jewelled brooch and a woman's skeleton with head N-E. (These finds undoubtedly represent part of an extensive Anglo-Saxon cemetery on this hill, other elements of which are represented by TR 35 SE 19, TR 35 SE 20 and TR 35 SE 51 centred on the chalk pits). The finds are in Deal Town Museum. (1-2)
Additional Info (3).
AS Type 5 inhumation cemetery. Row-grave & secondaries in Bronze Age barrow. Multi-period site adjacent to late 19th-20th C. disused chalk quarries. c.1905: Some possible Anglo-Saxon finds were discovered within these pits while they were still in use, including several possible Anglo-Saxon graves (Woodruff 1904; Smith 1908). 1986-9: Modern excavations revealed over 500 archaeological features and 132 burials (a third of which were of Late Iron Age date). 4 discernable cemetery sites on Mill Hill (designated I-IV) & in 1986-9: 76 burials clustered around a prehistoric barrow were excavated.
<1> VCH Kent 1 1908 365 (RA Smith) (OS Card Reference). SKE50853.
<2> Gaz of Early AS Burial Sites 1964 117 (ALS Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43530.
<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1999, St. Richards Road, Deal, Assessment of Early Chalk Extraction & Previous Archaeological Excavations (Unpublished document). SKE7411.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 1 1908 365 (RA Smith). |
| <2>XY | OS Card Reference: Gaz of Early AS Burial Sites 1964 117 (ALS Meaney). [Mapped feature: #58905 Cemetery, ] |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1999. St. Richards Road, Deal, Assessment of Early Chalk Extraction & Previous Archaeological Excavations. |
