Fulwell, inhumations at Carley Hill

HER Number:
358

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Fulwell, inhumations at Carley Hill

Place:
Fulwell

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
It is worthy of remark that several excavations have been discovered in the solid limestone rock, at Carley Hill, (similar to stone coffins) containing human Bodies. Thus said Dr. Clanney when he reported the discovery in November 1820 of a Roman figure and human bones at Carley Hill.

Easting:
381

Northing:
593

Grid Reference:
NZ381593

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 358 >> Dr. Clanney, 1822, Donations, Archaeologia Aeliana, 1, I, p. 13 M.A. Richardson, 1843, The Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Vol. III, p. 215 W.Fordyce, 1857, History of...Durham, Vol. II, p. 539 J.W. Summers, 1858, History of...Sunderland, pp.. 16-17 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 2.2