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865


S Tyneside


Marsden Bay, human bones


Marsden


NZ36NE


Religious Ritual and Funerary


Funerary site


Human Remains


Unknown



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Exhibited: By Mr John Graham, coroner for Chester ward:-... the skull discovered at the north end of Marsden bay; this with 105 other bones exhumed about 6 feet from high water mark, were covered with about 6 ins of soil and sea sand; 'the bones had been embedded a very long time - years - and were very friable; the skull was complete'. It has been suggested that they might be prehistoric.


397


655


NZ397655



<< HER 865 >> J. Graham, 1913, Exhibited,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3, V (for 1911-12), p. 18 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 81 no. 12

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