Marsden, inhumation

HER Number:
935

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Marsden, inhumation

Place:
Marsden

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
When Rev. Thomas Stephens (Monkwearmouth) recorded the discovery of Roman pottery near a quarry east of the cutting for the new road from Harton or Marsden, "or rather the recent extension towards the latter place", he added that he had been informed that, "whilst the cutting was being made, a human skeleton of extraordinary size was found".

Easting:
390

Northing:
653

Grid Reference:
NZ390653

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 935 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1885, Find of Roman Pottery near Marsden, 2, I (for 1882-84), pp. 93-4