A HISTORY OF KENT 



Primrose Hill, about 1880 (Kelly's Guide to Thanet, p. 46). Primrose Hill is a cart-track 

 joining the main-road and the bye-road to Minster. 



Newington Manor. — Three burials found in 1760 at Hythe below hedge of highway 

 across Milkey Down ; two with coffins, and all containing beads of glass and amethyst, some 

 on earrings [Hasted's Kent (Harris, 8vo, 1799), viii. 199]. 



NoRTHFLEET. — In 1 847 discoveries were made during railway excavations : few details 

 recorded, but illustrations given by Roach Smith of spears, shield-boss and handles, knife- 

 sword, bucket and Roman pottery [Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iii. 235]. The handle of a sword 

 found here was of pine [Coll. Ant. iii. 7]. 



During excavations on the chalk hill east of the football-ground an Anglo-Saxon burial- 

 ground was discovered in 1899. Twenty skeletons lay 3 ft. deep, the graves not being cut in 

 the chalk rock, but the bodies lying on the gravel bed, east and west ; with them were two 

 swords and several spears, bosses and handles of shields, also two openwork studs for the 

 shield in animal form, bronze bowls with embossed rims, beads, draughtsmen of glass, an iron 

 axe-head of francisca type, two small saucer-brooches and four cinerary urns of Anglian 

 character, as well as fragments of others. Both the brooches and urns with cremated bones 

 are rarities in Kent, and the occurrence of cineraries here lends colour to the alleged instances 

 at Folkestone and Coombe (pp. 355, 364) [Collection of Mr. Geo. M. Arnold, F.S.A.]. 



Otterham Creek. — See p. 375. Amber bead 3 in. in diameter and ij in. thick at 

 centre found in an Anglo-Saxon grave [Coll. Cant. 86]. 



OZINGELL. 5^1? p. 362. 



Patrixbourne. — See p. 342. 



PosTLiNG. — Small brooch with keystone garnets \Inv. Sep. pi. ii. fig. 3], and pair of belt- 

 rivets, found 1773 [pi. viii. fig. 14]. 



Ramsgate. — Near Three Mills, Roman urns with calcined bones found about 1846 

 in proximity to Saxon swords placed beside skeletons : collection of Mr. Tomson [your. 

 Brit. Arch. Assoc, ii. 281]. The site is near the junction of West Cliff Road and Grange 

 Road. 



Reculver. — See "p. 361. 



RicHBOROUGH. — See p. 361. 



RiNGWouLD. — See p. 363. 



Rochester. — See p. 376. Site of Anglo-Saxon discoveries in 1892 south-west of St. 

 Margaret's Church marked on Ord. Map, xix. 



In 1852-3 about twenty skeletons found on Star Hill, near Eastgate : relics included 

 keystone brooch, rectangular buckle-plate, Roman armlet, five spear-heads, and beads of 

 glass and amber \Jour. Brit. Arch. Assoc, ix. 407, pi. 32 ; Coll. Ant. iii. 209, pi. xxxiv]. 



St. Margaret's. — See p. 363. 



St. Martin's. — See p. 341. 



Sandgate. — Bronze mount of bucket found towards Sandgate [Arch. Journ. viii. 177 ; 

 Coll. Ant. ii. 161, fig. a: now British Museum]. 



Sarre. — See p. 357. Two iron discs, spear-heads and knives, with part of a bucket from 

 graves found 1868: British Museum, from Durden collection [Proc. Soc. Antiq. xiv. 312]. 



Shepherd's Well = Sibertswold. — See p. 350. 



Sittingbourne. — See pp. 373, 374, 382. 



Stodmarsh. — See p. 357. 



Stowting. — See p. 365. 



Strood. — See p. 376. 



Teynham. — See p. 373. In 1888 workmen excavating for brick-earth found a sword and 

 beads, and on another occasion an urn, beads and a knife, doubtless from Anglo-Saxon graves 

 [Coll. Cant. 114, 198; East Kent Gazette, 17 March, 1888]. Three fine circular brooches, 

 beads, armlet, buckle, iron key and amber glass ; also iron spear, shield-boss and sword, found 

 in 1889 [Proc. Soc. Antiq. xiii. 190]. 



Thanet. — Among several coins found in the island was a novel variety of penny of 

 Aethelheard, Archbishop of Canterbury, in conjunction with King Offa [Jour. Brit. Arch. 

 Assoc, i. (184s), 149]. 



In 1847 Lord Holmesdale exhibited a gold brooch, found in 1841 and attributed to the 

 ninth or tenth century, but ' set with pieces of coloured glass, tastefully arranged ' [Arch. 

 Jour. iv. 164]. Two glass beads of chevron pattern, said to have been found in a grave on 

 North Down, and others of the same kind ploughed up [British Museumj. 



Walmer. — See p. 363. 



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