Tunstall Hills, inhumation

HER Number:
155

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Tunstall Hills, inhumation

Place:
Tunstall

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
On the south peak of Tunstall Hill a grave was discovered in 1887 whilst preparing the ground for a bonfire to commemmorate the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign. The grave had been hewn out of the solid limestone and contained a human skeleton apparently of the Stone Age. This is the only reference to this discovery, and there is no secure evidence for its date.

Easting:
391

Northing:
544

Grid Reference:
NZ391544

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 155 >> W.C. Mitchell, 1919, History of Sunderland, p. 10 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 71, no. 7.2