Tunstall Hills, cremations in urns

HER Number:
331

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Tunstall Hills, cremations in urns

Place:
Tunstall

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Cremation

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In the Summer of 1914, some workmen discovered a covered cist made from limestone flags on the northern side of the southern peak, about six feet from the base. On the floor were the fragments of three urns "of very rude and inelegant form, ornamented with zigzag", all of them containing a rich dark mould, in which were interspersed small fragments of bone and some human teeth, the remains of cremations.

Easting:
3918

Northing:
5442

Grid Reference:
NZ39185442

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 331 >> R. Surtees, 1816, History of...Durham, Vol. I, p. 249 E. Mackenzie & M. Ross, 1834, View of the County Palatine of Durham, Vol. I, p. 338 W. Greenwell, 1877, British Barrows, p. 440 Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, 1890, A Prae-Historic Cist Burial at Sacriston, Vol. III, p. 184 W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, Vol. I, p. 208 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 71 no. 7.1