Fulwell Quarries, barrow

HER Number:
397

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Fulwell Quarries, barrow

Place:
Fulwell

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary Site

Site Type: Specific:
Cairn

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1759, during limestone quarrying, "a ridge of limestone and rubbage" (sic) was removed. The ridge was stated to be about 25 yards long from east to west, about a yard and a half high and nearly six yards wide, with its sides sloping "like the ruins of a rampart". In the middle of this bank, apparently covered by large flat stones (HER no. 398), there was a large human skeleton (HER no. 399), with 2 Roman coins near its right hand. (HER no. 400) A later account adds that "a small urn of unbaked clay" was also found. It has been suggested that this mound could have been a Neolithic long cairn, and the burial a Roman insertion.

Easting:
38

Northing:
59

Grid Reference:
NZ3859

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 397 >> P. Collinson, 1763, Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XXXIII, p. 492 (Oct. 1763) J. Sykes, 1866, Local Records, Vol. I, p. 221 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, 1952, linear mound (possibly Bronze Agerrow/rampart) R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, New series, Vol. 5, p. 8 no. 28 H.G. Welfare, 1980, Fulwell Giant, Northern Archaeology, Vol. 1 Part 1, pp. 22-25