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Findspot record TR 23 NW 39 - Late Bronze Age jewellery

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late Bronze Age gold ear-ring or hair ornaments

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Grid reference	TR 22 35 (point) LO
Map sheet	TR23NW
Civil Parish	FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT
County	KENT
District	FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Full Description

Two LBA gold ear-rings or hair ornaments, found at Folkestone in 1887, are in the Evans Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Accession numbers 1927/2959-2960. One is spirally twisted rod tapering to plain pointed ends, the other has plain tapered ends but a round section. (1)

<1> F1 ASP 02-APR-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41889.

<2> Archaeol of Kent, 1930, 114, 256 (R.F. Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE37298.

<3> Maidstone Museum Arch. Gazetteer (In progress) Anon.(Undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE46439.

<4> Field report for monument TR 23 NW 39 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5622.

Sources/Archives (4)

<1> SKE41889 OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 02-APR-64.
<2>XY SKE37298 OS Card Reference: Archaeol of Kent, 1930, 114, 256 (R.F. Jessup). [Mapped feature: #44974 find, ]
<3> SKE46439 OS Card Reference: Maidstone Museum Arch. Gazetteer (In progress) Anon.(Undated).
<4> SKE5622 Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 23 NW 39 - April, 1964.