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 A HISTORY OF KENT common in the Upper Thames Valley, passed into the British Museum from the collection of Dr. Lysons, and is said to be from Dover ; but there can be no doubt of the Kentish character of other relics from Dover in the same collection, including a superb circular brooch set with garnets and pearls in a cruciform design, amethyst beads and ear- rings of the usual pattern. Near the Dover road at Folkestone Hill a radiated brooch ' was found some years before 1848. It was of bronze gilt, ornamented with a row of garnet slabs set in silver along the stem, and similar stones or glass in the projections from the circular head. The type is also represented at Ozingell and Lyminge in Kent, by solitary specimens in other counties, while a variety occurred on Chatham Lines ; but it is more frequent in France and the Rhine district, and belongs to the early stage of Anglo- Saxon settlement. Above Folkestone, on the hill to the west of ' Caesar's Camp,' Roach Smith' dug out a Frankish jug from the site of a barrow ; and another opportunity was presented in 1850 by excava- tions for the foundations of buildings on the hill known as the Boyle. ^ No exact record of either find is preserved, and illustrations would have been of special value in both cases. An iron spear-head or sword was found with an urn (broken, perhaps by the workmen) which was filled with calcined bones. This was noted as a most unusual occurrence in Kent, and Thos. Wright asserted that the ware was identical with cinerary urns found in Northants and East Anglia. This and the cinerary bowl at Coombe seem to be the only examples of the kind in the county not obviously Roman. Turning inland, we enter the district crossed by the Roman road leading due south from Canterbury to Lympne, where interments were found about 1828, at the quarry on the edge of the hill at Bellevue, a mile west of Lympne Camp." With skeletons had been deposited spear-heads, a sword 15 inches long, a shield-boss, goblet of green glass, pottery bottle of Kentish type, and a buckle with corresponding plate for the belt, both very Frankish in appearance and possibly inlaid with silver in the style sometimes called damascening. Again in 1850 an Anglo-Saxon cemetery was cut through on Marwood Farm at Court- le-Street, but though many skeletons were found, no details of other finds are recorded.^ A radiated brooch of bronze with garnets and another of Scandin- avian type (see figs. 13, 14) terminating in an animal's head, both from Lyminge, 4 miles north, were presented to the British Museum by Rev. Canon Jenkins in 1890, having been found opposite the rectory some years before, with bones, swords, spear-heads and shield-bosses, during ex- cavations for the Elham valley line. There was also a thin ornament for the neck, which may have been a bracteate : it is said to have had > Wright, Celt, Roman and Saxon, p. 482 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iv. 159. 2 Coll. Ant. ii. 219. ' Proc. Soc. Antiq. Lond. 1st ser. ii. 175. " Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iv. 158 (figs.). 6 C. R. Smith, Richborough, Rccuhcr and Lympne, p. 263. 364