Houghton-le-Spring, inhumations from Halfway House
Houghton-le-Spring, inhumations from Halfway House
HER Number
326
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Houghton-le-Spring, inhumations from Halfway House
Place
Houghton-le-Spring
Map Sheet
NZ35SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Burial
Site Type: Specific
Inhumation
General Period
UNCERTAIN
Specific Period
Uncertain
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Parson and White's trade directory of 1828 refers to a find of human skeletons, with bones & deerhorns, found in a sand hole at Half-Way House, between Houghton and Newbottle to the east of the Colliery.
Easting
433770
Northing
550570
Grid Reference
NZ433770550570
Sources
<< HER 326 >> W. Parson & W. White, 1828, Durham and Northumberland, Vol. I, p. 266
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 67, no. 3
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 67, no. 3