Tunstall Hills, ?tumulus
Tunstall Hills, ?tumulus
HER Number
156
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Tunstall Hills, ?tumulus
Place
Tunstall
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Cairn
Site Type: Specific
Cairn
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Earthwork
Description
In 1952 an Ordnance Survey field investigator recorded a possible tumulus without a surrounding ditch on top of the southern peak of the Tunstall Hills, "formed of turf-covered stones surmounted by an O.S. trig pillar". Its measurements were given by a later investigator as 15.20 m in diameter and 1.70 m in height. It has been suggested that this site is the same as HER no. 154, but this seems unlikely on the grounds of location.
Easting
439160
Northing
554470
Grid Reference
NZ439160554470
Sources
<< HER 156 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, JHO, 1952, Possible tumulus/cairn NZ35SE9
R.Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectural & Archaeological Society Durham & Northumberland, New Series, Vol. 5, p. 12 no. 88
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 71, no. 7.3
R.Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectural & Archaeological Society Durham & Northumberland, New Series, Vol. 5, p. 12 no. 88
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 71, no. 7.3