Clavering Place, Roman cremations
Clavering Place, Roman cremations
HER Number
13524
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Clavering Place, Roman cremations
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Burial
Site Type: Specific
Cremation Burial
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Physical Evidence
Description
Urned cremations were found on the BEMCO site in 2008. They were not grouped away from the vicus buildings like the inhumations, but were within the tenements of the properties. Do they post-date the vicus buildings? Check
Easting
424800
Northing
563700
Grid Reference
NZ424800563700
Sources
D.H. Heslop, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before AD 1080, in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, page 15