Gateshead Fell, coins

HER Number:
703

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead Fell, coins

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE NZ25NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Martin's General Magazine reported the discovery in 1755 of 'three small and very ancient Saxon coins' (stycas?) on Gateshead Moor, near 'a skeleton, the bones of which lay compactly together and measured seven feet eight inches high, at seven feet depth from the surface, in a bed of stiff clay'". It has been suggested that the location is actually Gateshead Fell, and that the burial is prehistoric, although this interpretation is incorrect if the coins were associated with the burial.

Easting:
28187

Northing:
62109

Grid Reference:
NZ2818762109

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 703 >> W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, I, p. 73 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 43 no. 5