Castle Garth, human remains

HER Number

6538

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Castle Garth, human remains

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Human Remains

Site Type: Specific

Human Remains

General Period

EARLY MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Early Medieval 410 to 1066

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

In around 1752, when workmen were digging a cellar near the Castle Keep, they found a great number of human bones around 7 feet below ground level. It was assumed that they had been buried together in a pit during a seige of the Castle. A stone coffin was also found. Brand records the same incident, adding that the cellar was for the Three Bulls Heads Inn.

Easting

425000

Northing

563800

Grid Reference

NZ425000563800

Sources

The Newcastle General Magazine, V, (1752, April) p 220; J. Brand, 1789, The History and Antiquaries of the Town and County of Newcastle, Vol 1, p 173; Bourne 1752, V, p 220; Mackenzie, 1827, p 102; R.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, II, p 43; W.H.D Longstaffe, 1860, The New Castle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 4 (1860), p 121