South Shields, Baring Street, sculpture and stone trough

HER Number:
1885

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Baring Street, sculpture and stone trough

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific:
Gravestone

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Close beside the paved road (HER ref. 1884) was found "a striking sculptured stone, which was conjectured with great probability to have been connected with some funeral monument. Near it also were the remains of a shallow stone trough".

Easting:
3650

Northing:
6770

Grid Reference:
NZ36506770

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1885 >> Tyne and Wear Museums, 2001, Hadrian Primary School, Baring Street, South Shields, Archaeological Assessment, appendix 1 R. E. Hooppell, 1878, Natural History Transactions Northumbria, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, VII, 4, p4-5 and plate V