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Monument details

Summary

A Bronze blade recovered from Dover Road, Folkestone and donated to Northampton Museum.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

• BLADE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

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A bronze blade in Maidstone Museum (Acc.No. 25/1959) was found c.1880 "in digging a drain near some cottages recently purchased by a Roman Catholic establishment in the upper part of Dover St., Folkestone". "The blade belongs to no recognized Bronze Age form and it seems probable it is actually a re-used portion of a broken larger weapon such as a rapier blade. "(1) Pirie, (2) however, says it is closely paralleled by one illustrated in Evans' A.B.1., 212, fig.252. (1)(2) This implement is on display in Maidstone Museum but no further information on it was gained there. It was donated to the Museum in 1959 by Northampton Central Museum. Dover Street obviously means Dover Road but it was not possible to trace the site of the cottages in the "upper part" of the road. (3) Additional references (4-5)

Southern Water Services, 1993, Dover & Folkestone Wastewater Treatment scheme Environmental Statement (Unpublished document).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

<1> Arch Cant 49 1937 284-5 (Illust) N Cook (OS Card Reference). SKE35241.

<2> Arch Cant 73 1959 227 (EJ Pirie) (OS Card Reference). SKE35537.

<3> F1 ASP 10.04.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42025.

<4> Field report for monument TR 23 NW 33 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5618.

<5> Southern Water Services, 1993, Dover & Folkestone Wastewater Treatment scheme Environmental Statement (Unpublished document). SKE6815.

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