Hadrian's Wall, Milecastle Nine, human remains

HER Number:
13262

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Hadrian's Wall, Milecastle Nine, human remains

Place:
Blucher

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Ecofacts

Site Type: Broad:
Vertebrate Remains

Site Type: Specific:
Human Remains

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Outside the south wall of milecastle 9 (HER 214) about half way between the gate and the south-west corner, the headless skeleton of a person aged about 17 years was found in 1929. The bones of an adult man and a woman of about 20 were found nearby. The remains could be Roman or post-Roman.

Easting:
1753

Northing:
6626

Grid Reference:
NZ17536626

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
E. Birley, 1930, Excavations on Hadrian's Wall west of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, VII, pp. 152-164; David J. Breeze, Handbook to the Roman Wall, fourteenth edition, page 164