Warden Law cist
Warden Law cist
HER Number
254
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Warden Law cist
Place
Warden Law
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Cist
Site Type: Specific
Cist
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Later Prehistoric -4,000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Implied Evidence
Description
In 1877 the antiquarian Greenwell noted that near Hetton "three barrows remained unopened. In 1911 the largest was excavated around 1914 and the excavator noted two smaller conical mounds of natural glacial deposit covered with trees. A cist had been found in one of them around the middle of the 19th century, but was not properly examined and probably no longer exists.
Easting
437530
Northing
550260
Grid Reference
NZ437530550260
Sources
<< HER 254 >> W. Greenwell, 1877, British Barrows, p. 442
C.T. Trechmann, 1914, Prehistoric Burials in the County of Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XI, pp. 162-3
Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, ISS, 1978, Possible site of cist
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 71, no. 4
R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham & Northumberland, New Series, Vol. 5, p. 13, no. 96a
Aerial Photograph, Museum of Antiquities, Warden Law, 166,1-3
C.T. Trechmann, 1914, Prehistoric Burials in the County of Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XI, pp. 162-3
Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, ISS, 1978, Possible site of cist
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 71, no. 4
R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham & Northumberland, New Series, Vol. 5, p. 13, no. 96a
Aerial Photograph, Museum of Antiquities, Warden Law, 166,1-3