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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SW 49 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Anglo Saxon weapons found on Dartford downs |
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Summary
Possible Anglo-Saxon inhumation indicated by an Anglo Saxon spearhead and shield found during drain digging prior to 1884 on the Dartford Downs.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 53 73 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SW |
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| Parish: | DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
Associated Finds
- JAVELIN (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
- SHIELD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
Full description
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"Mr. E. P. L. Brock exhibited on behalf of Mr. C. Roach Smith, sketches of an umbo of a Saxon shield and a javelin-head, recently dug up on the downs near Dartford, the precise locality denoted in a map made by Mr. Youens. The umbo is of the type of No. 18 in pl. xv. of the Inventorium Sepulchrale. The objects were found in digging for a drain about 4 feet below the surface." (1) Finds not held by Dartford Museum.Youens map could not be traced. (2)
<1> J.B.A.A. vol. 40, 1884, pp. 120-1. (OS Card Reference). SKE44834.
<2> F1 ASP 02-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41899.
<3> Field report for monument TQ 57 SW 49 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3158.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: J.B.A.A. vol. 40, 1884, pp. 120-1.. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 02-OCT-64. |
| <3>XY | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 57 SW 49 - October, 1964. [Mapped feature: #78499 find, ] |
