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6538


Newcastle


Newcastle, Castle Garth, human remains


Newcastle


NZ26SE


Religious Ritual and Funerary


Funerary Site


Human Remains


Early Medieval



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In around 1752, when workmen were digging a cellar near the Castle Keep, they found a great number of human bones around 7 feet below ground level. It was assumed that they had been buried together in a pit during a seige of the Castle. A stone coffin was also found. Brand records the same incident, adding that the cellar was for the Three Bulls Heads Inn.


250


638


NZ250638



The Newcastle General Magazine, V, (1752, April) p 220; J. Brand, 1789, The History and Antiquaries of the Town and County of Newcastle, Vol 1, p 173; Bourne 1752, V, p 220; Mackenzie, 1827, p 102; R.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, II, p 43; W.H.D Longstaffe, 1860, The New Castle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 4 (1860), p 121

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