In November 2001 Cliff Bradshaw, a metal detectorist, discovered a gold vessel buried at a depth of c. 0.4 m in fields at Ringlemere in Woodnesborough. The cup was buckled inwards, squashed by the ploughshare which had caught it. It had been deliberately buried in a mound, built within an earlier henge, and dates from c.1800-1600BC. The henge, probably built in the 4th millennium BC, was a special place set aside for ceremonial use. As the millennia passed, the area remained so; Bronze Age burial mounds (barrows) clustered nearby and Anglo-Saxon burials were made some two and a half thousand years after this. The cup is about 11cm high, with a handle on one side. It is remarkably similar to a gold cup from Rillaton in Cornwall, which was found in 1837. The shape of the gold Cornish and Kentish cups is reflected in cups fashioned in other materials such as silver, amber and shale from north-western Europe. Both are now in the British Museum.