Cleadon, five human burials
Cleadon, five human burials
HER Number
5452
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Cleadon, five human burials
Place
Cleadon
Map Sheet
NZ36SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Burial
Site Type: Specific
Inhumation
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Five burials were found near Cleadon Tower in 1927. Wawn suggests that they were members of the Chambers family of Cleadon House, who had a dispute with the Bishop of Durham, which led to their excommunication. As excommunicants, they would have been denied the right to burial in consecrated ground. The burials may have been exhumed from a small gravel pit close to Cleadon House (HER 2582).
Easting
438100
Northing
562200
Grid Reference
NZ438100562200
Sources
<< HER 5452 >> John Mabbitt, Tyne and Wear Museums, 2003, 2-4 Sunderland Road, Cleadon, Archaeological Assessment
W. Hutchinson, 1785, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, Volume 2
D. Wawn, Cleadon, County Durham: Notes on its Antiquities
W. Hutchinson, 1785, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, Volume 2
D. Wawn, Cleadon, County Durham: Notes on its Antiquities