Monument record TR 04 SW 13 - Anglo-Saxon burial, Ashford

Summary

Prior to 1856 an Anglo-Saxon inhumation burial was discovered, probably 7th century AD, consisting of a skeleton with a claw beaker and weapons#Ashford - Olive-green glass drinking-cup with three rows of hollow lobes, 9.5ins high, found with skeleton and weapons. British Museum. (1) The olive-green glass claw beaker, is fragmentary having two claws, parts of other claws and wall fragments missing. It forms part of the Roach Smith Collection and is now on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. (2) TR 010425. Inhumation burial, Ashford. Before 1856 a skeleton was found with a tall clawbeaker and weapons. In Liverpool Museum. (3) A late type of claw-beaker from an Anglo-Saxon interment of the C7th at Ashford is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, on loan from the British Museum. Accession number BM 56.7-1.5172. (4)

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Grid reference TR 009 425 (point) Estimated from sources
Map sheet TR04SW
County KENT
District ASHFORD, KENT
Civil Parish ASHFORD, ASHFORD, KENT

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Ashford - Olive-green glass drinking-cup with three rows of hollow lobes, 9.5ins high, found with skeleton and weapons. British Museum. (1)

The olive-green glass claw beaker, is fragmentary having two claws, parts of other claws and wall fragments missing. It forms part of the Roach Smith Collection and is now on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. (2)

TR 010425. Inhumation burial, Ashford. Before 1856 a skeleton was found with a tall clawbeaker and weapons. In Liverpool Museum. (3)

A late type of claw-beaker from an Anglo-Saxon interment of the C7th at Ashford is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, on loan from the British Museum. Accession number BM 56.7-1.5172. (4)


<1> Invent Sep 1856 xlvi illus (C R Smith) (OS Card Reference). SKE44491.

<2> VCH Kent 1 1908 383 (R A Smith) (OS Card Reference). SKE50865.

<3> Archaeologia 107 1982 49 50 54 70 plate fig (V I Evison) (OS Card Reference). SKE37302.

<4> Gaz of Early AS Burial Sites 1964 108 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE43521.

<5> Dark-Age Britain 1956 140 158 159 160 161 (D B Harden) (OS Card Reference). SKE39601.

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  • <1> OS Card Reference: Invent Sep 1856 xlvi illus (C R Smith).
  • <2> OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 1 1908 383 (R A Smith).
  • <3>XY OS Card Reference: Archaeologia 107 1982 49 50 54 70 plate fig (V I Evison). [Mapped feature: #39632 burial, ]
  • <4> OS Card Reference: Gaz of Early AS Burial Sites 1964 108 (A Meaney).
  • <5> OS Card Reference: Dark-Age Britain 1956 140 158 159 160 161 (D B Harden).

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Sep 13 2022 1:49PM