South Shields, Tyne Dock, animal bones

HER Number:
864

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Tyne Dock, animal bones

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Ecofacts

Site Type: Broad:
Animal Remains

Site Type: Specific:
Mammal Remains

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
During the construction of Tyne Dock in 1855, remains of red deer, together with two skulls of the Bos primigenius, a gigantic extinct ox, were found embedded at a depth of seven or eight feet in the silt.

Easting:
353

Northing:
653

Grid Reference:
NZ353653

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 864 >> G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p. 3 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 81 no. 6