Tyne and Wear HER(420): Wearmouth, Anglo-Saxon cemetery - Details
420
Sunderland
Wearmouth, Anglo-Saxon cemetery
Monkwearmouth
NZ45NW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Cemetery
Inhumation Cemetery
Early Medieval
C7-C11
Find
Excavation south of the church revealed an extensive burial ground (300 + burials) of three phases. The earliest were earlier than or contemporary with the Saxon monastic buildings, the latest were earlier than the full post-Conquest occupation of the site. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT
402
578
NZ402578
<< HER 420 >> R.J. Cramp, 1969, Excavations at the Saxon Monastic Sites of Wearmouth and Jarrow... Medieval Archaeology, XIII, 31-34
R.J. Cramp, 1959, Monkwearmouth, Excavation report, Dept. of Archaeology Durham