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Mill Hill Anglo-Saxon cemetery

Middle Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Kent, United Kingdom

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Mill Hill Anglo-Saxon cemetery is a place of burial located close to the town of Deal in Kent, South-East England. Belonging to the Middle Anglo-Saxon period, it was part of the much wider tradition of burial in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Mill Hill was an inhumation-only cemetery, with no evidence of cremation.

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Advent of the Anglo-Saxon period

5th century CE

End of Roman rule in Britain

410 CE

Expansion of the name 'Kent'

end of the 6th century

Conversion of King Æthelberht

early 7th century

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United Kingdom

Coordinates

51.21° N, 1.38° E