Jarrow Priory, medieval cemetery

HER Number

1228

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Jarrow Priory, medieval cemetery

Place

Jarrow

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Cemetery

Site Type: Specific

Inhumation Cemetery

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Post-Conquest burials apparently lying in rows west of the claustral buildings. The pre-Conquest burials were largely in the cloister.

Easting

433870

Northing

565200

Grid Reference

NZ433870565200

Sources

<< HER 1228 >> Pers comm. Pam Lowther, 1993, Jarrow Priory, medieval cemetery; Turner, A, 2011, Geophysical Surveys at Wearnouth and Jarrow 2008-2011