Houghton-le-Spring, inhumations from Halfway House

HER Number:
326

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Houghton-le-Spring, inhumations from Halfway House

Place:
Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Parson and White's trade directory of 1828 refers to a find of human skeletons, with bones & deerhorns, found in a sand hole at Half-Way House, between Houghton and Newbottle to the east of the Colliery.

Easting:
3377

Northing:
5057

Grid Reference:
NZ33775057

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 326 >> W. Parson & W. White, 1828, Durham and Northumberland, Vol. I, p. 266 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 67, no. 3