Houghton-le-Spring,Copt Hill, Anglo-Saxon inhumation

HER Number:
437

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Houghton-le-Spring,Copt Hill, Anglo-Saxon inhumation

Place:
Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet:
NZ34NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Early Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
The burial mound at Copt Hill contained, in addition to prehistoric burials, an unburnt body on the summit of the mound laid east-west on its back at full length with the head to the west. It occurred in a cist constructed of stones set on edge, measuring 6 feet in length and 2 feet 3 inches in width, 4.5 feet above the ground level and 3 feet below the surface of the barrow. No implements were found with this interment which was judged to be of Anglo-Saxon and possibly Christian origin.

Easting:
3534

Northing:
4922

Grid Reference:
NZ35344922

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 437 >> C.T. Trechmann,1914, Prehistoric Burials in the County of Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XI, pp. 123, 130 R. Young, 1985, The Copt Hill, Houghton-le-Spring, Round Cairn: a Reassessment, Archaeologia Aeliana, 5, XIII, 8