ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS 



north and east of the county Teutonic types are said to preponderate, 

 as in the heart of Thanet and near Sandwich ; and Frisian characteristics 

 have been noticed in the north and sporadically in the interior, while 

 the south shows more affinity to the opposite Gaulish coast, and Romney 

 Marsh and the Weald preserve a purer British strain. All this sounds 

 probable enough, but further precision seems hopeless. 



The bulk of the antiquities hitherto noticed from Kent belong to 

 the sixth century of our era, but a few notable pieces serve as specimens 

 of the artistic work executed by native craftsmen in the century that 

 began with the mission of St. Augustine. There are still a few relics 

 of a later age, when Christianity was fully established in Kent, to show 

 the gradual transformation of style under 

 foreign influences. The remaining series 

 may be introduced by a find that can be 

 dated precisely by associated coins. 



In 1838 a remarkable silver cross^ 

 was dug up at Gravesend between Perry 

 Street and the cemetery with a quantity 

 of coins that fix its date. It is now in 

 the national collection, and is of Greek 

 form with equal arms. At the top is a 

 loop for suspension, and in the centre a 

 glass dome, evidently part of a bead, with 

 blue and white markings in a gold mount 

 of rope pattern. As on the Canterbury 

 brooch, there are interlacings at the ex- 

 tremities, and in this instance they seem 

 to be mere sketches, roughly executed with a sharp-pointed instrument, 

 perhaps with a view to filigree ornament. As many as 552 coins were 

 found in association, and the following are the monarchs represented : 



Fig. 25. 



Pendent Cross of Silver, 

 Gravesend (|). 



Louis, of France (i) . . . . 814-840 



Ceolnoth, Abp. of Canterbury (3) 830-870 



Ethelwulf (3) 837-857 



Burgred, of Mercia (429) . . 842-874 



Ethelweard, E. Anglia (5) . . 855 



Edmund, E. Anglia (50) . 

 Ethelred (57) .... 



Alfred (i) 



Ceolwulf II. of Mercia (i) 

 Athelstan I., E. Anglia (2) 



855-870 



867-872 



872-901 



874 



828-837 



In spite of a wrong attribution to Athelstan II. (Guthrum), Mr. Hawkins 

 concluded, on various grounds, that the deposit was made about 

 874-5, a date that closely corresponds to that of the Trewhiddle 

 hoard.' Burial of treasure just at that time may well be explained by 

 the activity of the Danes on our coasts. 



Of the same general form is the bronze cross (fig. 26) found in 

 St. George's Street, Canterbury, about i860.' It has been used as a 



» Numismatic Chronicle, iii. (1840), p. 14, fig. p. 34 ; see also new ser. viii. 150 (other hoards com- 

 pared). 



"- V.C.H. Cornwall, i. 376. 



3 So Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd ser. i. (1861), 287; see also John Brent, Canterbury in the Olden Time, 

 2nd ed. pi. xvii. fig. I, p. 47. 



