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Monument details

Summary

Radnor Park, Folkestone. Three cremation burials found in 1918. Burial 1 - consisted of calcined bones and `Colchester' brooch in a butt-beaker.Burial 2 - calcined bones in a butt-beaker.Burial 3 - was a cemation in a small pedestal jar and associated with a single-handled flagon, a samian cup and two bronze brooches.It is difficult to determine the exact extent of the cemetery.

Monument Types

• CREMATION CEMETERY (CREMATION, Late Iron Age to Roman - 1 AD to 100 AD)

Full description

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(TR 21773652) Iron Age Pottery and Roman Burials found AD 1918-20 (NAT) (1) In February 1918, the late Mr C.H Stevens of 6 Bournemouth Gardens, Radnor Park, Folkestone, digging in his allotment near the angle formed by the junction of Wilton Road and Julian Road, found a Belgic butt-beaker containing human bones and earth, and nearby a pedestal urn containing human bones and two incomplete bronze brooches; with this were found a C1st Belgic imitation of a Roman flagon and a C1st Samian cup, form 27. In December of the same year, Mr Stevens unearthed a slightly large butt-beaker, some 40 feet from the first, containing a large bronze brooch, of probably C1ts AD date. The groups are all on exhibition in Folkestone Museum, but whereas the February finds were donated to the Museum in the same year Stevens did not donate his December finds until January 1920. The finding dates given by the OS are apparently a misinterpretation of this. There is no evidence of finds later than 1918. The area has now been built over. (2) TR 218365. Radnor Park, Folkestone. Three cremation burials found in 1918. Burial 1 - consisted of calcined bones and `Colchester' brooch in a butt-beaker. Burial 2 - calcined bones in a butt-beaker. Burial 3 - was a cemation in a small pedestal jar and associated with a single-handled flagon, a samian cup and two bronze brooches. No.123 in the appendix of La Tene III cremations. It is difficult to determine the exact extent of the cemetery. (3) Folkestone. A late la tene cremation. (4) Folkestone. Included in a list of pedestal urns in Britain. (5) Radnor Park, Folkestone. Aylesford culture cremation burial discovered in 1918. It consists of three burials of the Lexden phase phase, with finds including a Colchester brooch, two butt beakers, a flagon and even a samian cup. (6)

<1> OS 25" 1958 (OS Card Reference). SKE48274.

<2> F1 CFW 23-APR-1964 (OS Card Reference). SKE42721.

<3> Antiquareis Journ 5 1925 63-4 illus (SE Winbolt) (OS Card Reference). SKE33255.

<4> Archaeol Cant 34 1923 156-7 (AR Davies) (OS Card Reference). SKE37224.

<5> Excav Late Celtic Urn-field Swarling Kent Soc Antiquareis Rpt 5 1925 20-21 plates (J Bushe-Fox) (OS Card Reference). SKE41684.

<6> Rev ONB 1938 (OS Card Reference). SKE49195.

<7> Folkestone Museum File and Accessions Book (OS Card Reference). SKE43434.

<8> Burial Practices in Iron Age Brit 1981 1 151 2 381 (R Whimster) (OS Card Reference). SKE38433.

<9> Proc Prehist Soc 20 1954 23 (CA Raleigh Radford) (OS Card Reference). SKE48722.

<10> Archaeol Journ 87 1930 328 (C Hawkes, GC Dunning) (OS Card Reference). SKE37288.

<11> Probs in Economic and Soc Archaeol 1976 404-5 (ed G de G Sievking, IH Longworth, KE Wilson) (OS Card Reference). SKE48707.

<12> Field report for monument TR 23 NW 15 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5601.

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