Tyne and Wear HER(396): Sunderland, Langham Tower, cist burial - Details
396
Sunderland
Sunderland, Langham Tower, cist burial
Sunderland
NZ35NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Funerary site
Cist
Prehistoric
Bronze Age
Find
A cist burial was recorded at Langham Tower, perhaps in the 1920s, but there are no details. Some flint tools supposedly found in the cist are presumed lost.
3984
5605
NZ39845605
<< HER 396 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 64, no. 26
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series,Vol. 161, p. 219, F 111