Billy Mill, stone coffin containing inhumation
Billy Mill, stone coffin containing inhumation
HER Number
492
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Billy Mill, stone coffin containing inhumation
Place
Billy Mill
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Cist
Site Type: Specific
Cist
General Period
UNCERTAIN
Specific Period
Uncertain
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
"Here is a quarry of excellent stone, in which the workmen, in 1790, discovered a stone coffin. It was about five feet from the surface, was walled around, and covered by a large flat stone. The skeleton within it appeared very perfect, but mouldered to dust on being exposed to the air".(1) Richardson added that the discovery was made in May, and that the cover stone had no inscription on it.
Easting
433600
Northing
569200
Grid Reference
NZ433600569200
Sources
<< HER 492 >> E. Mackenzie, 1825, View of Northumberland, Vol. 2, p. 460
M.A. Richardson, 1842, The Local Historian's Table Book: Historical Division Vol. II, p. 333
H.H.E. Craster, ed. 1907, Chirton Township, Northumberland County History, Vol. VIII, p. 316
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 78 no. 2
M.A. Richardson, 1842, The Local Historian's Table Book: Historical Division Vol. II, p. 333
H.H.E. Craster, ed. 1907, Chirton Township, Northumberland County History, Vol. VIII, p. 316
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 78 no. 2