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Monument details

Summary

Anglo-Saxon pottery found near the Great Mongeham-Ripple Road in 1911. The find is part of the Deal Town Hall Collection in Deal castle and has been interpreted as being a find from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

Associated Finds

• VESSEL (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)

Full description

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A small Anglo-Saxon hand-made pot or cup on display in Deal Castle Museum, part of the Deal Town Hall Collection, was found in digging for stone near the Great Mongeham to Ripple road in 1911 (a,b). A distribution map in the museum compiled by Dunning and Stebbing marks with an 'A/S find' symbol a stone pit centred at TR 35075102, now disused and grassed over. Stebbing's MS 2" map in Deal Public Library shows this pit as the site of Belgic, Roman and Saxon finds, but no information concerning the Belgic or Roman aspects has been found. (1) ?Inhumation cemetery, Great Mongeham. A hand-made saucepan-shaped pot with a slightly everted rim was found in 1911, between Great Mongeham and Ripple. Now in the Deal Town Hall Museum. The site may be as much as several hundred yards from the Mongeham Bottom site (TR 35 SE 48), but it is possibly part of the same cemetery. (2) additional reference (3-6)

<1> F1 ASP 20-JUL-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42207.

<2> Card with exhibit, Deal Castle Museum (OS Card Reference). SKE38594.

<3> Md. Arch. 2, 1958, 64 (S. Chadwick) (OS Card Reference). SKE46719.

<4> Gaz of Early AS Burial Sites 1964 130 (A L S Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43541.

<5> Letter 29 2 61 S Hawkes to A L Savill (OS Card Reference). SKE46087.

<6> Field report for monument TR 35 SE 47 - July, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6105.

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