Today’s image is of a stone archer’s wristguard accompanying a Beaker vessel found in an Early Bronze Age round barrow at St Peters, Broadstairs.
The wristguard, made from non local mudstone, and Beaker were found in excavations at the St Peter’s Refuse tip site between 1969-1971 where an important Anglo Saxon cemetery was also excavated.
As a young lad of 12, or thereabouts, I did some work on this dig with my Latin teacher Cec Hogarth (summer of 1970?). My parents still live nearby and we still occasionally turn up flint tools in their garden.