Tunstall, High Elstob Farm, burial cairns
Tunstall, High Elstob Farm, burial cairns
HER Number
240
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Tunstall, High Elstob Farm, burial cairns
Place
Tunstall
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Cairn
Site Type: Specific
Cairn
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In recording flints from High Elstob Farm, in the south-east field to the west of Tunstall Hope, mention was made of two patches of stones on the east slope which suggested scattered burial cairns.
Easting
438000
Northing
554000
Grid Reference
NZ438000554000
Sources
<< HER 240 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25
R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectural & Archaeological Society Durham & Northumberland, New series, Vol. 5, p. 13 nos. 94-5
R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectural & Archaeological Society Durham & Northumberland, New series, Vol. 5, p. 13 nos. 94-5