The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery on Mill Hill, Deal, Kent

by Keith Parfitt, Birte Brugmann

Mill Hill was the burial place for a 6th century community of high status, with men bearing arms and women wearing jewellery, some deriving from the continent. Until the excavation of Buckland, Dover, in 1994, the Mill Hill cemetery was the largest Kentish 6th century site excavated with modern techniques. Its 76 graves can tell us much about the generations after the historical advent of the Jutes to Kent. The wealth of objects in the graves allows re-evaluation of both Scandinavian and Continental influence on Kent in the 6th century and therefore is of importance to studies of both the Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian periods.

308 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 1997