"1818. October 30. The workmen of Collingwood Main colliery, in cutting through part of the lands at Chirton, near North Shields, for a water level, came to the remains of a human body, enclosed in flagstones set upon their edges, about four feet below the surface, and covered over by others of a similar description. Only a skull and two or three mutilated bones were found, which, almost immediately, on being exposed to the air crumbled into dust; the bottom of the enclosure contained nothing else, except some white sand. The place where found...is in the south-west angle of a large Roman encampment...in the field of east Chirton, called "Blake Chesters", now called Crawley".

"1818. October 30. The workmen of Collingwood Main colliery, in cutting through part of the lands at Chirton, near North Shields, for a water level, came to the remains of a human body, enclosed in flagstones set upon their edges, about four feet below the surface, and covered over by others of a similar description. Only a skull and two or three mutilated bones were found, which, almost immediately, on being exposed to the air crumbled into dust; the bottom of the enclosure contained nothing else, excapt some white sand. The place where found...is in the south-west angle of a large Roman encampment...in the field of east Chirton, called "Blake Chesters", now called Crawley".

"Here is a quarry of excellent stone, in which the workmen, in 1790, discovered a stone coffin. It was about five feet from the surface, was walled around, and covered by a large flat stone. The skeleton within it appeared very perfect, but mouldered to dust on being exposed to the air".(1) Richardson added that the discovery was made in May, and that the cover stone had no inscription on it.

"Here is a quarry of excellent stone, in which the workmen, in 1790, discovered a stone coffin. It was about five feet from the surface, was walled around, and covered by a large flat stone. The skeleton within it appeared very perfect, but mouldered to dust on being exposed to the air".(1) Richardson added that the discovery was made in May, and that the cover stone had no inscription on it.

Two flint axes, one 7.25 in x 3.5 in at the broadest part and of a deep ochreous colour, the other 5.25 in x 2.25 in and white, were found in 1860 in alluvial soil at the estuary of the Don near Jarrow during the construction of Tyne Dock. It was suggested that they had come in ballast. Source 1 reported that the larger was partially polished, source 4 that both axes had "surfaces entirely ground". Formerly in the possession of the late Mr. John Thompson of Simonside (3), they are now lost.

Roman coin, probably Valens. Obv. Bust to right, draped and wearing pearl diadem (...)F AVG Rev. Emperor advancing right, dragging captive with right hand, holding a labarum in left hand. (GLORIA ROMANORVM) Mint CUN(...) 25 Feb. 364 - 17 Nov. 375. Found in the gas main trench at junction of Beach Road and Woodbine Road (sic Woodbine Street) by Joseph Barr, 22 Dickens Avenue, Biddick Hall Estate, South Shields NE34 9SY. Registered at South Shields Roman Fort Museum on 8 April 1991 by P.T. Bidwell and retained by the finder. Dated C4.

Black cherty shale barbed and tanged arrowhead, found on waste ground off Regent Street/Market Street/Edward Street, by S.D. Wallace, of 19 Regent Street, Hetton-le-Hole, DH5 9AB. Lent to Sunderland Museum for 4 years, Nov. 1991.

Between West and Middle Herrington, on both sides of the Herrington Burn, which here flows from W to E, and also in the Park S of Middle Herrington, there is fine ridge and furrow, without extant field boundaries. The Tithe Awards for both settlements of 1847 suggest that the township boundary ran N-S across the first of these areas, leaving a single field (W Herrington no. 60, Battle Field) to the W. On the E side of the line there were apparently 5 fields divided between 3 farms, nos. 62 The Meadows, 63 Blakeless and 75 in the Middle Herrington west farm, no. 64 West Blakeless in John Gibson's Farm, and no. 74 with the land attached to Middle Herrington Hall. All at that time were down to grass. In the second area, no. 80 The Park was grass, no. 98 Far Park was arable.

An apparently single-ditched sub-oval enclosure.

An aerial photo exists showing a rather woolly cropmark of perhaps an enclosure south of the two tree-covered mounds of Warden Law. Without better definition it is impossible to be certain whether or not this is actually a site.