Dinnington, human bones
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
Cemetery
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
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
420546
Northing
573474
Grid Reference
NZ420546573474
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
M.H. Dodds, 1926, Parish of Ponteland: Chapels and Chantries, Northumberland County History, XII, 436-37