Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GILTON

GILTON, a place in Ash-next-Sandwich parish, Kent-A Saxon burial-ground was long ago discovered here; and weapons, ornaments, and other relics, all of the pagan Saxon period, and possessing much interest, have been found in it, and are still occasionally found.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ash Ch/AP/CP       Kent AncC
Place: Guilton

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