Exploring Kent's Past

It should not be assumed that this site is publicly accessible and it may be on private property. Do not trespass.

Monument details

Summary

Early-medieval inhumation (probable site of) Mongeham Road, Great Mongeham, Deal The site lies mid way down a west-north-west facing slope. OD 10-15m. Grave goods including a pin, two finger rings and a small saucer brooch form part of the Deal Town Hall Collection in Deal Castle Museum. A Kentish-type button brooch, a belt-plate and a bronze pin were found at the stone pits at Mongeham Bottom, and were probably from a single burial or even several burials. In Deal Town Hall Museum. The site may be as much as several hundred yards from a pot found in 1911 (TR 35 SE 47), but it is possibly part of the same cemetery. AS inhumation.

Monument Types

• INHUMATION (INHUMATION, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)

Associated Finds

• BROOCH (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 599 AD)
• FINGER RING (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 799 AD)
• PIN (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 799 AD)

Full description

If you do not understand anything on this page please contact us.

In 1913 an Anglo-Saxon inhumation burial found at Mongeham Bottom. No further information could be obtained regarding the exact find-spot or circumstances of discovery, but distribution maps in Deal Reference Library (c) and Deal Castle Museum show an 'Anglo-Saxon find' symbol at a disused and grassed over stone-pit in Mongeham Bottom at TR 35075102. A large bronze pin with a cubical head facetted at the angles (C6th-C8th), two bronze finger rings and a small C6th saucer brooch decorated with a human face, found with the burial, are in Deal Castle Museum (Deal Town Hall Collection). (1) ? Inhumation cemetery, Great Mongeham. A Kentish-type button brooch, a belt-plate and a bronze pin were found at the stone pits at Mongeham Bottom, and were probably from a single burial or even several burials. In Deal Town Hall Museum. The site may be as much as several hundred yards from the pot found in 1911 (TR 35 SE 47), but it is possibly part of the same cemetery. (2) Additional reference (3-7)

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

<2> Display Card: Deal Castle Museum (OS Card Reference). SKE39742.

<3> Medieval Archaeol 2, 1958, 64 (S. Chadwick) (OS Card Reference). SKE46843.

<4> Stebbing MS. Notes, Deal Reference Library (OS Card Reference). SKE49675.

<5> Gaz of Early AS Burial Sites 1964 130 (A L S Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43541.

<6> Letter 29 2 61 S Hawkes to A L Savill (OS Card Reference). SKE46087.

<7> Field report for monument TR 35 SE 48 - July, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6106.

Sources and further reading