Jarrow, Roman oil lamp

HER Number:
983

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Roman oil lamp

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Heating and Lighting

Site Type: Broad:
Lighting Object

Site Type: Specific:
Lamp

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A Roman oil lamp was found "in the ballasting gravel of a railway embankment at East Jarrow, near the Curlew Road", and exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle, in 1929. The railway must have been one of the wagonways or mineral lines in that area.

Easting:
33

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ3365

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 983 >> J.D. Rose, 1931, Roman Lamp from Jarrow,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, IV (for 1929-30), p. 47