ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



work in the form of a ring-brooch (see fig. 12), which is an elaborate 

 example of a type represented at High Down, Sussex.' Near the point 

 of the pin are two birds modelled in the round and working on pivots, 

 while a third is fixed to the base of the pin. The ornamentation 

 consists of a pearled border 

 and two bands of a repeat- 

 ing animal design, much in 

 the style of certain bracte- 

 ates (pendants of gold-foil) 

 found in Scandinavia ' and 

 belonging to the same 

 period. A disc-brooch of 

 bronze engraved in the 

 same manner, with a blue 

 glass cabochon setting in 

 the centre, was found in the 

 King's Field, Faversham, 

 and is now in the national 

 collection. 



Traces of occupation 

 during Roman and Anglo- 

 Saxon times might well be 

 expected at the point where 

 the Wantsum, which made 

 Thanet an island, reached the northern coast of Kent. A green lobed glass^ 

 of the usual type, now in Canterbury Museum, was found at Reculver, 

 and other objects are recorded by Roach Smith,* but without details of 

 their discovery. They comprise fragments of a keystone brooch about 

 1 1 inches in diameter ; sceattas, a gold coin and another, mounted as a 

 pendant, of Magnentius (350-3), but the locality of the last is uncertain. 

 At the other mouth of the waterway that once cut off Thanet from the 

 mainland, sporadic discoveries were made near Richborough before 

 1849. During the draining of Goss-field, at Cup Street near Goldstone, 

 nearly twenty graves with flagstone covers were found containing skele- 

 tons, weapons, urns, coins, glass vessels and beads, but here again no 

 systematic exploration was undertaken. One brooch' was of base silver 

 (as pi. ii. fig. 2), and there was a remarkable buckle of Keilschnitt work 

 that may with some confidence be assigned to the fifth century, as being 

 directly connected with the late Roman style, an example of which also 

 occurred on the site. 



Fig. 12. Encravi 



Silver Brooch, Sarre ([). 

 ish Museum.) 



• V.C.H. Sussex, i. 344. 



2 Especially one from Lyngby, Randers, Jutland; Atlas for Nordisk Oldkyniighed, No. 129; B. 

 Salin, De Nordiska guldbrakteaterna, pp. 54, 103. 

 ^ Pag. Sax. pi. ii. 



* Richborough, Reculver and Lympne, pp. 157-8, 213-4; P^- '''"■ %• 18, and pi. viii. figs. 2-10 ; 

 perhaps also fig. I (p. 2I0). Bzttely, Antiq. Rutufinae (1745), pi. vi. ; Bihl. Top. Brit. i. 7;, pi. iii. 

 (coins). 



5 Pag. Sax. xxlx. 4 ; Richhoro', etc., pi. v.. figs. 1-6, p. 88 ; Jl. Brit. Arch. Assoc, v. 374 ; Arch. 

 XXX. pi. xi. fig. I, attributed to Gilton in Ash parish, to which Richborough also belongs. 

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