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Monument Number 464640

Hob Uid: 464640
Location :
Kent
Canterbury
Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : TR1540057730
Summary : Saxon cemetery excavated at the west end of St Augustine's Abbey Church and to the south of the church between 1960-78. Much human loose bone was found, the product of disturbed burials from unmarked graves, together with a number of articulated skeletons. All sexes and ages were represented among the bodies found suggesting that this was a lay cemetery. Associated grave goods included a 6th or 7th century buckle and an 8th century scramasax.
More information : A Saxon cemetery was revealed during excavations at the W end
of St Augustine's Norman Abbey Church, 1955, by A Saunders.
(TR 15405773 - see illustration card for plan). There had
been much reburying and many burials were jumbled, but parts
of 14 articulated skeletons were found and 19 skulls. (1)

Further excavations, 1976-1978, by H Woods. (See illustration
card for plan). (2)
Sources :
Source Number : 1
Source :
Source details : 1978 plan (A Saunders)
Page(s) : 30, 39-40
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) : 22
Source Number : 2
Source :
Source details : KAS Mon IV 1988 (D Sherlock H Woods)
Page(s) : 81-82
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) : No.4
Source Number : 3
Source :
Source details :
Page(s) : 162
Figs. :
Plates :
Vol(s) : 261
Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date : C6th-C8 Christian cemetery
Monument End Date : 799
Monument Start Date : 500
Monument Type : Cemetery
Evidence : Sub Surface Deposit
Components and Objects:
Period : Early Medieval
Component Monument Type : Cemetery
Object Type : BUCKLE, SEAX
Object Material :
Related Records from other datasets:
External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : KE 49
External Cross Reference Notes :
External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TR 15 NE 302
External Cross Reference Notes :
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