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XI. Letter from Charles Roach Smith, Esq. F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary, communicating an Account of some Antiquities found in the neighbourhood of Sandwich, in the county of Kent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Charles Roach Smith Esq.
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Mr. William Henry Rolfe, of Sandwich, has kindly placed in my hands, for the inspection of the Society, a variety of interesting remains, found within the last few years at Gilton, Coombe, Woodnesborough, and Richborough.

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Archaeologia , Volume 30 , 1844 , pp. 132 - 136
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1844

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page 134 note a Ap. Paluz. T. J. p. 254, conf. capit. 6.

page 135 note a Lib. 2. cap. 6.

page 135 note b A thane of Æthelred the Second bequeathed to the king, among other valuable gifts, two swords with silvered handles:—“Ego do Domino meo 200 mancusas auri, et duos gladios cum manubriis argentatis,” &c.—Monasticon, t. i. p. 266.

page 136 note c See the Nenia Britannica.—The tumuli on Breach Downs, lately opened by Lord Albert Conyngham, contrary to those in other parts of Kent, examined by Douglas, yielded no coins, but in a small one, subsequently excavated by Mr. J. P. Bartlett, four Anglo-Saxon sceattas were found. Proceedings Num. Soc. p. 88. The importance of collecting facts before attempting to generalize is herein obvious.