During perpetration for planting in October 1875 W. O. Hammond, the then owner?, discovered near St. Albans Court in Nonington fifteen skeletons. The graves were aligned East-West at a shallow depth and a number of finds were recovered. The finds included, , a blade about 8" long and around the forearm of one a bronze ring, riveted and 3" in diameter". The remains were later reburied to the north-east of where they were found under a stone pyramid. The location of the grave-goods found is not known. The site is situated on the brow and upper part of a gentle east facing slope. OD 30-33m.. Bedrock Upper Chalk., In 2001 the Dover Archaeology Group, as part of their ongoing research into the history of St. Albans Court and the manor of Easole undertook a geophysical survey and excavation in the area where the graves were found. A further five graves were found closely spaced and also aligned roughly east-west. Only three of the graves contained grave-goods. Grave 1 contained a small iron and bronze buckle. Grave 2 had fragments of un-worked whale bone. Grave 5 had a rectangular iron buckle and had been enclosed by a discontinuous ring gully with a diameter of 4.5 metres. This suggests that it had originally been covered by a small barrow mound. A later unfurnished burial had been cut into the mound, largely destroying the earlier interment. Grave 2 also appears to be a later insert cut into the northern edge of the barrow. The location of the cemetery on the slopes of a downland ridge are typical of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. The general lack of grave-goods and the alignment east-west implies that they date from the 7th-8th century AD.