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An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Westbere, Kent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

R. F. Jessup
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The purpose of this paper is to record as far as is now possible the relics from a small but interesting Saxon cemetery which was found in 1931 during the working of a gravel pit in the parish of Westbere, some 3½ miles north-east of Canterbury.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 1-2 , April 1946 , pp. 11 - 21
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1946

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page 11 note 1 The cemetery is mentioned in Kendrick and Hawkes, Arch, in England and Wales, 1914–1931 (1932), p. 306; Arch. Cant, xlv (1933), xliii; Ant. Journ. xiii (1933), 237; Antiquity, vii (1933), 451; and dealt with rather more fully by Leeds, Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology (1936), pp. 43–4; and by Hodgkin, History of the Anglo-Saxons (2nd ed. 1939), 1, 92, and Pl. 19.

page 12 note 1 1-in. map War ed. Sheet 117A, 640796. 6-in. map, Kent, Sheet XXXVI, SW. The site is marked on the current edition of the 25-in. plan. War-time service requirements and enemy action have altered the configuration of the pit, which is now over-grown and abandoned.

page 12 note 2 Wallenberg, , Place-Names of Kent (Uppsala, 1934), p. 515Google Scholar. By Hasted's time the name had become Haseden (Hasted, History of Kent, 8vo ed. ix (1800), 69).

page 12 note 3 A seventh-century barrow at Stodmarsh, a sixth-century burial at Hoath (V.C.H. Kent, 1 (1908), 357, 385) and a burial with a silver sword pommel at Grove Ferry (P.S.A.L. xv, 178) are the chief evidence.

page 13 note 1 At Oaklands, V.C.H. Kent, iii (1932), 174.

page 14 note 1 It should be noted that Dr. Ince used different reference numbers in his correspondence with Mr. Leeds.

page 17 note 1 It is pertinent to remark here that not all claw-beakers are of seventh-century date as Åberg suggested: those with flared rims belong to the close of the fifth and to the sixth century. See Leeds, Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology (1936), pp. 50 and 76.

page 18 note 1 G. Behrens, Germania, Jahr xiii, 4 (1929), p. 195. For this reference I am indebted to Mr. D. B. Harden, F.S.A.

page 20 note 1 A somewhat similar pot without a neck from Gilton, Ash, is illustrated in Inventorium Sepulchrale, p. xlvii, fig. 3.