Hadrian's Wall, Milecastle Nine, human remains
Hadrian's Wall, Milecastle Nine, human remains
HER Number
13262
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Hadrian's Wall, Milecastle Nine, human remains
Place
Blucher
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Burial
Site Type: Specific
Deviant Burial
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Outside the south wall of milecastle 9 (HER 214) about half way between the gate and the south-west corner, the headless skeleton of a person aged about 17 years was found in 1929. The bones of an adult man and a woman of about 20 were found nearby. The remains could be Roman or post-Roman.
Easting
417530
Northing
566260
Grid Reference
NZ417530566260
Sources
E. Birley, 1930, Excavations on Hadrian's Wall west of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, VII, pp. 152-164; David J. Breeze, Handbook to the Roman Wall, fourteenth edition, page 164