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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
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con-jecture without drawing too freely upon our imagination.The cavity on the north-western side was more like a gutter,sloping down towards the bottom of the trench, and certainlyartificial. It is now time to say something of the period to whichthese sepulchral deposits must be assigned, which is rendereddifficult from the utter absence of relics with either of theskeletons. My friend Canon Greenwell, who has been madeacquainted with the various details of this discovery, isinclined to regard it as belonging to the Bronze Age, whichplaces it at several centuries before the Christian Era.Barrows of this period, and of such magnitude as that underconsideration, are not common in Kent, but that they onceexisted there can be no reasonable doubt. The Shornebarrow was probably swept away because it interfered withagricultural operations, and we may safely say that the samefate has befallen numerous others in this highly cultivatedcounty. This inference, we anticipate, will be borne out at
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S c cu L A P Lcun,. CM. Scrvverv, F. S.I., Thong, Gtavesend. Celtic Burial Ground at In eld Place Farm, Shorne,Keimt. \ ——— \ 18 9 9

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