Billy Mill, stone coffin containing inhumation

HER Number:
492

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Billy Mill, stone coffin containing inhumation

Place:
Billy Mill

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary Site

Site Type: Specific:
Cist

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
"Here is a quarry of excellent stone, in which the workmen, in 1790, discovered a stone coffin. It was about five feet from the surface, was walled around, and covered by a large flat stone. The skeleton within it appeared very perfect, but mouldered to dust on being exposed to the air".(1) Richardson added that the discovery was made in May, and that the cover stone had no inscription on it.

Easting:
336

Northing:
692

Grid Reference:
NZ336692

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 492 >> E. Mackenzie, 1825, View of Northumberland, Vol. 2, p. 460 M.A. Richardson, 1842, The Local Historian's Table Book: Historical Division Vol. II, p. 333 H.H.E. Craster, ed. 1907, Chirton Township, Northumberland County History, Vol. VIII, p. 316 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 78 no. 2