ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



A similar discovery at Dover may be conveniently noticed here. 

 Several enamelled discs were found in the Old Park in 1861, comprising 

 four virith a curvilinear swastika in the centre (one retaining its hook, 

 as fig. 24), a narrow curved band' enamelled in the same style as 

 the border of the discs, a hooked disc of similar dimensions but with 

 star centre and a border of running scrolls, and two smaller discs, one 

 having a kind of handle. Unfortunately there is no further record of 

 the discovery, but there can be little doubt that all belonged to a bronze 

 bowl (possibly two), and metal strips have been found in such associ- 

 ation on more than one occasion. Though their Celtic origin is evident, 

 the precise use and date of these enamelled bowls have still to be de- 

 termined. These discs were presented to the Dover Museum by Mr. 

 W. Clayton. 



Mention may here also be made of some enamelled discs, evidently 

 from a bowl of similar kind, found in 1862 near the site of the Old 

 Tilt Yard at Greenwich on the north side of 

 the Hospital. The design' is of Celtic origin, 

 and is thrown up by red champleve enamel, 

 while the diameter of i inch is about the 

 average, somewhat larger than those from 

 Lullingstone. The work was at the time 

 referred by John Brent to the seventh cen- 

 tury, after the conversion of Kent ; and the 

 three discs, with one of the frames provided 

 with a hook for the suspending chain (see 

 fig. 24), were transferred by him to the 

 Canterbury Museum. 



Among so much that is pre-eminently 

 Kentish, there are a few ornaments that show 

 intercourse with the Continent, whether by ^ 



^ 1 ■ ■ A Fic;- 24. Enamelled Escutcheon 



way or commerce or colonisation. A com- ^f Bowl, Greenwich ([). 



mon Rhenish and Burgundian type of 



brooch, with peculiar animal-head terminal, has two representatives 

 in Kent, one from Gilton' being without the radiations from the 

 head that are seen in the illustration (pi. ii. fig. 5) ; the original is in 

 Canterbury Museum, but the locality unknown. On the same plate 

 (fig. 3) is a bronze-gilt brooch, quite exceptional in England, and most 

 probably imported from Denmark in the fifth century. 



Scandinavian influence is evident in the few 'long' brooches found 

 in the county (as Lyminge), terminating in a head seen from above and 

 somewhat resembling that of a horse, the eyes and nostrils being exag- 

 gerated. A large specimen is published from Gilton,' but the small 

 size is more usual, and has been found at Faversham, Lyminge (fig. 14), 

 and Bifrons.' Radiated brooches, which seem to belong to the middle 



1 A similar fragment found near Dover was given to the British Museum by Samuel Lysons. 



2 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Land. 2nd ser. ii. 202. ^ Jrch. xxx. pi. xi. fig. 3. 



« Arch. XXX. pi. xi. fig. 6. « Arch. Cant. x. pp. 305, 308 (two). 



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