Tyne and Wear HER(983): Jarrow, Roman oil lamp - Details
983
S Tyneside
Jarrow, Roman oil lamp
Jarrow
NZ36NW
Heating and Lighting
Lighting Object
Lamp
Roman
Find
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.
33
65
NZ3365
<< 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