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VIII. Account of Antiquities discovered at Southsleet, in Kent, in a Letter from the Rev. Peter Rashleigh to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. and F. S. A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Peter Rashleigh
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As a discovery which I have lately made in this parish within a few fields of my house, will, I trust, be interesting to you and all antiquaries, I have taken up my pen to send you some account of it.

A few days ago, as some men were ploughing in a field, in this parish, they perceived one of their horses feet to sink in the ground, which, upon examination, proved to be in the mouth of an urn; fortunately the horse did not break it, and the men dug it up; they examined its contents, and finding no coins, but that what it contained consisted only of some burnt bones and pieces of broken glass of a bluish colour and very thick, they threw them again into the hole and covered them up, bringing the urn home, which is now in my possession.

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Archaeologia , Volume 14 , 1803 , pp. 37 - 39
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1803

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page 37 note [a] See Pl. VI. fig. I.

page 37 note [b] Pl. VI. fig. 2.

page 38 note [c] Pl. VIII. fig. 1.

page 38 note [d] Pl. VII. fig. 1. 2.

page 38 note [e] P1 VII. fig 3. 4.

page 38 note [f] Pl. VIII. fig. 2.

page 39 note [g] Pl. VIII. fig. 3.

page 39 note [h] Pl. VIII. fig. 5.