TR 15 SW 3 - Early Medieval Barrow Cemetery, Chartham Downs

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Monument record TR 15 SW 3 - Early Medieval Barrow Cemetery, Chartham Downs

Summary

A Saxon cemetery of about 100 barrows was discovered on Chartham Downs. Twenty graves were opened in 1730 by Dr. Cromwell Mortimer, and 53 by Bryan Faussett in 1764 and 1773. All were destroyed before 1856. Cremation was practiced in the early phase of the cemetery but the subsequent high proportion of unfurnished graves suggests that it became Christian. A Roman glass bottle in the British Museum and a brooch and coins of the late Empire were found in one barrow. The site lies on the top and upper slope of a west facing spur of the North downs, overlooking the Stour valley. The ground slpoes away to the south, west and north. OD 60-70m.

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Grid reference	TR 1097 5425 (point) FCE
Map sheet	TR15SW
County	KENT
District	CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish	CHARTHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT

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Full Description

Andrew Richardson, 2000, Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent (Unpublished document). SKE29253.

<1> "Arts in Early England" 4 1915 728-30 (plan) (GB Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE32594.

<2> Arch Cant 46 1934 60 (OGS Crawford) (OS Card Reference). SKE35189.

<3> VCH 1 1908 369-70 (RA Smith) (OS Card Reference). SKE50792.

<4> VCH 3 1932 149 (OS Card Reference). SKE50810.

<5> Nenia Britannica 1793 Plate 24 (Douglas) (OS Card Reference). SKE47529.

<6> Early AS Burial Sites 1964 114 (Audrey LS Meaney) (OS Card Reference). SKE41560.

<7> F1 ASP 20.01.65 (OS Card Reference). SKE42196.

<8> Field report for monument TR 15 SW 3 - January, 1965 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5493.

<9> MORTIMER FAMILY PAPERS (Collection). SKE6543.

<10> Lawson-Price Environmental, 1996, Archaeological Desk Based Assessment of Land At St Augustine's Hospital Chartham (Unpublished document). SKE8362.

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--- SKE29253 Unpublished document: Andrew Richardson. 2000. Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and Burial-Sites in Kent.
<1>XY SKE32594 OS Card Reference: "Arts in Early England" 4 1915 728-30 (plan) (GB Brown). [Mapped feature: #44063 cemetery, ]
<2> SKE35189 OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 46 1934 60 (OGS Crawford).
<3> SKE50792 OS Card Reference: VCH 1 1908 369-70 (RA Smith).
<4> SKE50810 OS Card Reference: VCH 3 1932 149.
<5> SKE47529 OS Card Reference: Nenia Britannica 1793 Plate 24 (Douglas).
<6> SKE41560 OS Card Reference: Early AS Burial Sites 1964 114 (Audrey LS Meaney).
<7> SKE42196 OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 20.01.65.
<8> SKE5493 Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 15 SW 3 - January, 1965.
<9> SKE6543 Collection: MORTIMER FAMILY PAPERS.
<10> SKE8362 Unpublished document: Lawson-Price Environmental. 1996. Archaeological Desk Based Assessment of Land At St Augustine's Hospital Chartham.

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Intrusive Event: Excavation, Chartham Downs, 1773 (Ref: EI 14645) (EKE3763)
Intrusive Event: Excavations at Chartham Downs/Swerling Down, 1930 (Ref: EI 14644) (EKE4682)

Record last edited

Nov 1 2022 12:13PM