The inhumation cemetery at Kings Field, Faversham was found in 1859 by railway workers digging a new cutting. Little is now known about the individual graves, but the finds surviving suggest it was probably the richest Anglo-Saxon site in Kent, and dated to the 6th to 7th centuries. A Roman inhumation and cremation cemetery from an earlier period was also recorded at the time. The site of the cemetery is now built over. However, Kent Archaeological Field Unit have been excavating in gardens and pieces of open ground to determine the extent of the cemetery and how much of it survives.

These objects are part of the Cecil Brent collection that was sold at Sotheby's in 1902, acquired by Lord Grantley, sold by him at Glendinings in 1942, and subsequently purchased by the Ashmolean Museum:

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