Dinnington, human bones

HER Number:
1336

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Dinnington, human bones

Place:
Dinnington

Map Sheet:
NZ27SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary site

Site Type: Specific:
Human Remains

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1820 part of the field called the Back Yards, on the north-west edge of Dinnington, was dug up. In addition to the foundations of a building, the supposed chapel, "About a yard below the surface, they discovered a number of bones, supposed to be human, and some sculls with the teeth perfect in the jaw bones".

Easting:
2065

Northing:
7344

Grid Reference:
NZ20657344

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1336 >> D. Maddison, 1830, Prestwick Carr, pp. 33-34 M.H. Dodds, 1926, Parish of Ponteland: Chapels and Chantries, Northumberland County History, XII, 436-37