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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ringlemere
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.961 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Kent Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Sandwich
Map Ref: TR297567
Latitude: 51.263149N  Longitude: 1.291066E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Ringlemere submitted by Andy B : Sandwich Gold Cup. Bronze Age Gold Cup recently found at Woodnesborough nr Sandwich, Kent. Circa 1700 - 1500 BC Copyright Trusties of the British Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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3D model of the Ringlemere cup from the British Museum by Andy B on Friday, 27 October 2017
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Modelled by Amelia Knowlson. (Note: Most controls are self explanatory - mouse wheel zooms in and out)




Ringlemere Cup
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I noticed this wasn't on display on my visit last week. Now (I asked) can you 'unscrunch' it digitally?

A reply from Amelia! "It will take some digital wizardry bit it is possible. I will make it a future project"
https://twitter.com/AmeliaKnowlson/status/924015254530678790

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The Bronze Age Gold, Amber and Shale Cups from Southern England and Europe by Andy B on Thursday, 04 August 2016
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The Bronze Age gold, Amber and Shale Cups from Southern England and the European Mainland, a Review article by Paul Ashbee

http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/128-2008/128-13.pdf
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The Ringlemere Cup: Precious Cups and the Beginning of the Channel Bronze Age by Andy B on Thursday, 04 August 2016
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Editors: Stuart Needham, Keith Parfitt and Gillian Varndell
Contributors: Aaron Birchenough, Chris Butler, Caroline Cartwright, Stuart Needham, Susan La Niece, Keith Parfitt, Gillian Varndell

In 2001 an Early Bronze Age gold cup was discovered by Cliff Bradshaw, a metal-detectorist, at Ringlemere Farm, Woodnesborough, in east Kent. It belongs to a well known series of ‘precious’ cups made of gold, silver, amber and shale, and has much in common with the celebrated gold example from Rillaton, Cornwall. The find set in motion a campaign of survey work and excavation on the site; preliminary results are given here.

The cup was found to have come from a circular ditched monument (M1), originally over 50m in diameter. The monument is interpreted, in its original form, as a Late Neolithic henge with an external bank, a single entrance and a central rectilinear timber structure; a mound was later added to the interior. Henges with comparable diameters, orientations, central structures or added mounds are discussed. No evidence for prehistoric burials has been found at Ringlemere M1, but a precise context for the cup has been deduced, placing its deposition with a contemporary amber pendant, one of two amber objects from the site, at an advanced phase of the site’s life.

Fieldwork has also demonstrated the presence of other monuments clustered around M1 and occupying gently sloping ground near the headwaters of the Durlock Stream. This volume gives a synthesis of current knowledge of the elusive Neolithic and Early Bronze Age monuments of east Kent. It also contains a summary of the long sequence of activity revealed by excavation, including intensive Grooved Ware occupation preceding and/or contemporary with the henge, and much later use of the denuded mound as a focus for an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery.

The 15 other precious cups from north-west Europe are reviewed afresh in terms of form and contexts largely on the basis of new study. Their stylistic and technological backgrounds are elicited and their function argued to be highly specialized. Despite the presence of common features, most of the cups are seen to be individual creations, probably the products of their respective regions of discovery. This has significant implications for what the cups represent and how they relate to growing waterborne exchange along an axis from the English Channel to the lower Rhine and the Frisian coast. The cups are interpreted as key elements in a ritual package that helped ‘service’ a specific maritime contact network operating in this zone. One of the key materials being exchanged westwards within this network was amber, highly prized for cosmological reasons in southern Britain and Brittany. While amber was clearly much sought in Wessex for the manufacture of spacer-plate necklaces and other ornaments,

it is argued that southern coastal communities were those responsible for supply of the precious raw material. A range of distinctions is brought out between the two regions – Wessex proper and the southern English littoral – to demonstrate that, although articulating with one another, they had rather different identities, craft skills and ritual preoccupations. Ringlemere adds further evidence to help undermine the joint fallacies that all Early Bronze Age valuables stem from a Wessex-led ideology and that a ‘Wessex culture’ or ‘Wessex series’ is a meaningful term for the varied ritual and material expressions in Early Bronze Age southern Britain.
British Museum Research Publication 163
ISBN 13: 978-086159-163-3

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Re: Ringlemere by Andy B on Thursday, 04 August 2016
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A rare gold cup from the Bronze Age has been secured for display by the British Museum. It is only the second example of its type to come from the UK, with just five cups of this type known across the whole of Europe. Found in Ringlemere, east Kent, in 2001, the cup has helped provide further evidence of the extensive trading networks that covered Europe during the Bronze Age.

It was "virtually reconstructed" using an endoscope, radiography and x-rays following scientific examination of the cup at the British Museum.

The artefact dates from between 1700 and 1500 BC - the same era as Stonehenge - and reveals a higher level of workmanship than was previously thought possible for this time.

A team of archaeologists has been working on the site where the cup was found, and discovered a previously unsuspected funeral site from the early Bronze Age.

However the assumption that the cup was dislodged by modern ploughing from a grave remains to be proven.

It was acquired for the museum through funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The National Art Collections Fund and Friends of the British Museum.

Source: BBC NEWS 25/06/03
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Re: Ringlemere by Anonymous on Friday, 06 May 2016
In East Kent, Eastry has been a main city for at least 1000 years. The Roman Road puts the date at about 2000 years of interest. I have always been interested in the derivation of 'The Lynch'. This area comprises what looks like man made rolling terraces. East Kent and especially Eastry must have a close connection with the movements of people from Europe. And I assume Eastry was more close to the sea in the time of Thomas (a) Beckett. He stayed in Eastry before he fled to France/Holland. The pathways leading to the hop gardens behind St Mary's Church are made up of rounded pebble stones.
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Ringlemere and Ritual and Burial Landscapes of Kent by Andy B on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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Ringlemere and Ritual and Burial Landscapes of Kent by Keith Parfitt
Book chapter here:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/5%20Chapt.pdf

Ceramics of the south-east: new directions
Research investigations at Ringlemere following the chance discovery of an Early Bronze Age gold cup has led to the excavation of a large class I henge associated with a nationally-important assemblage (5500 sherds) of Clacton style Grooved Ware (Varndell 2006, 41-3), while further assemblages of Clacton style Grooved Ware have been recovered from various sites along route of CTRL (Barclay and Edwards 2007).

Short paper by Alistair Barclay here:
https://shareweb.kent.gov.uk/Documents/Leisure-and-culture/heritage/serf-seminar-papers-neolithic-and-early-bronze-age/paul-garwood.pdf


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Re: Ringlemere by coldrum on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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British Museum

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/t/the_ringlemere_gold_cup.aspx

Current Archaeology

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/return-to-ringlemere.htm

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    Re: Ringlemere by Andy B on Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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    Thanks, this site was also in the latest British Archaeology magazine with further work going on this year, along with excavations of another suspected henge elsewhere in Kent.
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