Tyne and Wear HER(916): South Shields Roman fort, 5th century burials - Details
916
S Tyneside
South Shields Roman fort, 5th century burials
South Shields
NZ36NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Burial
Inhumation
Early Medieval
C5?
Find
Outside the south-west gate of the fort the original approach road was cut by an extension of the ditch, and then later reconstructed across the ditch fill. "Several burials cut across the line of the approach road mark its eventual disuse". SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT AND UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
3643
6790
NZ36436790
<< HER 916 >> P.T. Bidwell in C.M. Daniels, ed. 1989, The Eleventh Pilgrimage of Hadrian's Wall, South Shields - Arbeia, p. 89