Today’s image for Day 260 of the VM_365 project shows cropmarks at Sarre recorded during an aerial reconnaissance flight by the Trust for Thanet Archaeology in 1990. The cropmarks, located to the east of the existing Sarre Mill, show an Anglo Saxon cemetery in the north east quadrant of the picture and a medieval post-mill … Continue reading VM_365 Day 260 Cropmark of Medieval Post-Mill at Sarre
Today’s VM_365 image shows the fully exposed skeleton within Grave 275 of the Sarre Anglo Saxon cemetery (left) and the sword which lay above it under excavation (right). As you can see from the photo on the right, the grave was very shallow, the surrounding soil and chalk having been eroded over the years and … Continue reading VM_365 Day 238 Grave 275, Sarre Anglo Saxon cemetery
Today’s image for Day 229 of the VM_365 project shows an Anglo Saxon sunken featured building, which was excavated during a Watching Brief on a pipeline at Sarre in 1991. Sarre is perhaps better known for its extensive Anglo Saxon cemetery which has featured in many of our posts (Day 19, 33, 34, 35, 116, … Continue reading VM_365 Day 229 Anglo Saxon Sunken Featured Building from Sarre
The image for Day 227 of the VM_365 project is taken from the illustrations of pottery vessels excavated at the Anglo Saxon cemetery at Sarre in the mid 19th century which were published in Archaeologia Cantiana by John Brent in 1868. The Sarre cemetery was not investigated again until over 100 years later in 1990 … Continue reading VM_365 Day 227 Anglo Saxon pottery from Sarre
For Day 153 of the VM_365 project our image shows an Anglo Saxon ceramic bottle vase, excavated in 1990 from Grave 277 at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sarre, the iron châtelaine ring and keys shown in yesterday’s post came from the same grave. The bottle vase shown here is wheel turned in a smooth grey … Continue reading VM_365 Day 153 Anglo Saxon bottle vase from Sarre
Today’s image for VM_365 Day 152 shows a heavily corroded iron châtelaine ring holding two iron keys or latchlifters which were excavated from grave 277 at Sarre in 1990. This grave was undisturbed. Because of its small size and the lack of survival of much of the bone. was interpreted as the grave of a … Continue reading VM_365 Day 152 Chatelaine and keys from Sarre
Our image for VM_365 Day 151 shows one of the most common artefacts excavated within Anglo Saxon graves; an iron knife. Iron knives are often found in both male and female graves and come in many different types. This example was found in grave 279 at Sarre excavated in 1990. The grave it was found … Continue reading VM_365 Day 151 Anglo Saxon Iron Knife from Sarre
Today’s VM_365 Day 150 image shows a gold pendant excavated from an Anglo Saxon grave at Sarre in 1990. The pendant is no longer in our possession and the image above was taken at the time of the excavation. The large, well cut grave (grave 286) had been disturbed by grave robbing in antiquity and … Continue reading VM_365 Day 150 Gold looped pendant from Sarre
Today’s VM_365 image for Day 149 is of an illustration of a late sixth century, silver, small square-headed brooch found in Grave 4 at Sarre by John Brent in 1863. This coloured illustration was published in 1863 in an account of the Kent Archaeological Society’s researches of the cemetery at Sarre. The brooch is very … Continue reading VM_365 Day 149 Silver Square Headed Brooch from Sarre
The image for Day 142 of VM_365 is of a bronze handle, which may have been attached to a casket placed in a grave at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sarre. The small amount of intact bone that remained in the grave (G. 286) suggested that it contained an adult. Other finds associated with the burial … Continue reading VM_365 Day 142 Anglo Saxon bronze casket handle from Sarre