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Monument details

Summary

"Ancient British Pottery" consisting of broken vases was found in the Sandgate Road at the south-east corner of Christ Church grave yard, in 1878, and is now in the Folkestone Museum. Only one of these 'vases' can be traced in Folkestone Museum, a tiny buff-coloured beaker, of uncertain but probably Roman date. Nothing further is known about it at Folkestone Museum where it is described as Neolithic.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (POTTERY, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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[TR 22443572] British Pottery found A.D.1878 [T.I.] (1) "Ancient British Pottery" consisting of broken vases was found in the Sandgate Road at the south-east corner of Christ Church grave yard, in 1878, and is now in the Folkestone Museum. (2) Only one of these 'vases' can be traced in Folkestone Museum, a tiny buff-coloured beaker, of uncertain but probably Roman date, 3 1/4" high, 1 1/4" wide at neck and base, and 2" in diameter at widest part of body. Nothing further is known about it at Folkestone Museum where it is described as Neolithic. (3)

Southern Water Services, 1993, Dover & Folkestone Wastewater Treatment scheme Environmental Statement (Unpublished document). SKE6815.

Southern Water Services, 1993, Dover & Folkestone Wastewater Treatment scheme Environmental Statement (Unpublished document). SKe6815.

<1> OS 25" 1938. (OS Card Reference). SKE48266.

<2> Rev. O.N.B. 1938, 72. (OS Card Reference). SKE49218.

<3> F1 CFW 29-APR-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42809.

<4> Field report for monument TR 23 NW 16 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5602.

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