Osengall, Kent
Historical Description
Osengall, a hill in the NE of Kent, on the line of the Canterbury and Ramsgate branch of The S.E.R., near the coast, 1½ mile W of Ramsgate. It is traversed by a cutting of the railway, and it commands a splendid view. Its summit was found, at the excavation of the railway cutting, to have all been occupied with graves, from the time of the earliest Saxon settlers in Thanet till the time of Ethelbert. A few of The graves were Roman, but the vast majority were Saxon and disposed apparently in rows, and those of the 5th and 6th centuries yielded numerous beads, corns, brooches, weapons, knives, and other objects illustrative of the arts and customs of the period.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5