Fig. 17. Engraved Bronze 

 Plate, Faversham (^). 



ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



by a backing of hatched gold-foil. To enumerate any but the principal 

 objects recovered would be wearisome, and a personal inspection of the 

 bequest now at the British Museum is recommended to any desirous of 

 seeing the masterpieces of early Anglo-Saxon 

 metal-work. 



Of exceptional rarity is the Christian 

 monogram' (if such it be) on the end of a 

 heavily-gilt knife-handle, and there are a few 

 other relics from the site that may date from 

 the seventh century, after the conversion of 

 Kent by Augustine. Perhaps the most strik- 

 ing are the three openwork escutcheons (see 

 fig. 8) from a bronze bowl, for attaching 

 chains to the rim ; in the centre is the Latin cross supported by two 

 animals that may be meant for the hippocamp common in late Roman 

 art. Some smaller plates from this cemetery, evidently for the same 

 purpose, are enamelled with the graceful scroll-work that had descended 

 from pre-Roman times and survived for some centuries in Ireland. 

 The Latin cross occurs further on a jewelled brooch, replacing the 

 T-shaped settings sometimes found in Kent ; but the cross may here be 

 purely ornamental. The late Roman style is seen on an engraved 

 buckle-plate (see fig. 17) that recalls examples from Sussex"" and Bucks'; 

 while the animal- form considered as typical of seventh-century 

 Teutonic art is well seen on a gilt fragment (with animals supporting a 

 fish) and a pair of dainty gold buckles ; the jaw is pointed below, and 

 an angular band is placed behind the eye as on the back of the Kingston 

 brooch (fig. 4). Among the rarer specimens may be mentioned three 

 jewelled brooches with T garnets (as pi. i. fig. 14) ; the ornamented 

 Hp of silver-gilt (see fig. 1 6) probably belonging to a wooden drinking 



cup and much like one from 

 Surrey,* where a gold pendant 

 was also found like one from 

 Faversham, with many roughly 

 punched holes in the four quad- 

 rants. The neighbouring county 

 of Essex has also furnished paral- 

 lels ' for the radiated brooch, the 

 pyramidal button (as pi. i. fig. 

 7), garnet and blue-glass cell- 

 work and the Scandinavian plain 

 bronze brooch, all of which 

 occurred in the King's Field at 

 Faversham ; while three pottery vases of somewhat Merovingian appear- 

 ance have been found at Faversham (see fig. 18), Kingston (p. 345), and 



Stamped Pottery Vase, Faversham (|). 



• Coll. Ant. vi. pi. xxiv. fig. 7. 



' V.C.H. Bucks, i. 199. 



» V.C.H. Essex, i. plate at p. 322, figs. 



V.C.H. Sussex, i. pi. at p. 344, fig. 3. 

 V.C.H. Surrey, i. pp. 266 (fig. 6), 265 (Farthingdown). 

 , 13, 14, 18. 

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