Boldon Hill, skeleton

HER Number

5070

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Boldon Hill, skeleton

Place

West Boldon

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Burial

Site Type: Specific

Inhumation

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Human skeleton discovered by workmen laying sewers on a building site in 1976. The remains were found 2 foot below the surface on a layer of solid limestone. Three skeletons were found nearby in 1965, and these were suggested as plague victims or soldiers from the Battle of Boldon Hill in 1635.

Easting

435000

Northing

561000

Grid Reference

NZ435000561000

Sources

<< HER 5070 >> 1976, Workmen turn up 'cavalier' skeleton, Northern Echo, 13 March 1976