(TR 21473702) Bronze Age Beaker found AD 1930-31 (NAT) (1)

A Bronze Age group C beaker in Folkestone Museum (Acc No.201/1931) was found in a sandpit close to the 13th tee in the south-west corner of Folkestone Golf Course, north of the Pent Stream. It was discovered in many pieces, and was repaired by Folkestone Museum, now standing 6.5 inches high. it is of a hard, well-fired clay, with impresssed herring-bone decoration. (2)

Mr Whiting remembers this find to have been made about 1930 in the small sand pit centred TR 21453702. It is on exhibition in Folkestone Museum. (3)

A watching brief in May 1971 on roadworks uncovered "prehistoric pottery".(7)

Mentioned in report(6).

<1> OS 25" 1959 (OS Card Reference). SKE48276.

<2> Antiquaries Journ 20 1940 487 illus (R F Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE33261.

<2> Jessup, R. F., 1940, UNknown, Antiquaries Journ 20 1940 487 illus (R F Jessup) (Article in serial). SKE8039.

<3> F1 CFW 23-APR-1964 (OS Card Reference). SKE42721.

<4> Mr. C. Whiting, Unknown, Bronze Age Beaker, Morehall, Folkestone, Oral: Mr C Whiting, Professional, Folkestone Golf Club (Verbal communication). SKE8038.

<5> Field report for monument TR 23 NW 3 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5589.

<6> RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKE6910.

<7> Philp, B. J., 1971, Group Emergency Reports, Page 143 (Article in serial). SKE8037.