Fulwell, inhumation and urns ?in cist
Fulwell, inhumation and urns ?in cist
HER Number
371
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Fulwell, inhumation and urns ?in cist
Place
Fulwell
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Burial
Site Type: Specific
Inhumation
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1900 or 1901 a Bronze Age burial was found at Fulwell. Inside was a skeleton "about four feet below the surface in a sand bed; it was covered with (limpet) shells (of which there were several hundreds)…and a large stone on the top". Also in the grave were fragments of cinerary urns. The urns, of which there is a photo, were broken by the workmen, as were the large stones which formed the cist, being used for the foundations of the new street footpaths. The bones were covered up. The precise location of this site is unknown.
Easting
439000
Northing
559000
Grid Reference
NZ439000559000
Sources
<< HER 371 >> J.H. Robinson, 1907, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3, II (for 1905-06), pp. 78, 198
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Possible Bronze Age burial - inhumation.
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 3.1
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Possible Bronze Age burial - inhumation.
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 3.1