[TR 10213499] "Small pot, height 2.5ins, extreme circumference 10ins [see sketch] found when Sir Phillip Sassoon's house - Port Lymnpne - was built in 1913. The pot contains a white substance - chalk or perhaps bone dust, but no bone fragments. Seven small beads are displayed with this pot in the museum [probably Folkestone] but it is not known if they were found with it (a). From its size I should guess it was probably an accessory vessel buried with an inhumation, and that guess would be strengthened if the group of beads were found with the pot. I would not like to say whether it is early or late in the pagan Anglo-Saxon period. These little globular pots are often late, but the simple decoration does not really help one way or the other (b). (1) The Anglo-Saxon pot, and presumably the beads also, are held by Folkestone Museum, though they could not be located. (2) Listed as pot no. 460 by Myres, and classified as a hollow-necked form with vertical and diagonal, and chevron decoration. It is a small globular vessel of a smooth grey ware having a wide mouth, short upright rim and rounded base. It is decorated with a single neckline above intersecting three-line "hagende Bogen". (3) [TR 102350] ?Inhumation burial. Port Lympne. The site is one mile WNW of Stutfall Castle, and c. 100 yards (sic) W. of the Bellevue site (TR 13 SW 2). No exact location is known, or details of the discovery of the small pot in 1913. The pot is ornamented with a simple linear design. It is difficult to date, but its globular shape may show it to be of late pagon date. Seven small, mostly blue glass beads, which were not burnt, seem to have been associated with the pot. If they were, it strengthens the assumption that this was an accessory vessel in an inhumation burial, probably of a child. The pot contained a white substance, which was not analysed, but was probably chalk rather than bone dust. They are in Folkestone museum, plus a letter from J.N.L Myres describing the finds. Information was supplied by P.J Tester. (4)

<1> A Savill April 1956 (OS Card Reference). SKE32908.

<2> Letter (R Howarth Folkestone Librarian) 27.01.56 (OS Card Reference). SKE46071.

<3> Letter (JNL Myers) 21.01.56 (OS Card Reference). SKE46048.

<4> F1 ASP 11-DEC-62 (OS Card Reference). SKE42049.

<5> Inf. Mr Davis, Asst librarian in Folkestone Library and Museum (OS Card Reference). SKE44387.

<6> A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon pottery of the Pagan Period 1 1977 302 2 fig 279 (OS Card Reference). SKE32756.

<7> A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites 1964 127 (A Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE32790.

<8> Field report for monument TR 13 SW 6 - December, 1962 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5382.