Building Hill, inhumations
Building Hill, inhumations
HER Number
395
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Building Hill, inhumations
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Burial
Site Type: Specific
Inhumation
General Period
UNCERTAIN
Specific Period
Uncertain
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1842 two human skeletons were discovered on Building Hill. The first, supposedly an adult female, was found "about three feet below the surface, near the footpath of Building Hill quarry.... The second "was disentombed by Mr. William Jefferson" while quarrying stone. The discoveries are not described well enough to provide evidence for their date. Other references to "doubtful implements from Building Hilll", and a much later reference to a barrow there do not justify a prehistoric date.
Easting
439800
Northing
556400
Grid Reference
NZ439800556400
Sources
<< HER 395 >> M.A. Richardson, 1846, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Vol. V, pp. 355, 407
J.W. Summers, 1858, History of Sunderland, p. 14
W.C. Mitchell, 1919, History of Sunderland, p. 10
J.A. Petch, 1925, Roman Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, I,p. 30
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 64, no. 25
R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectural & Archaeolgical Society of Durham and Northumberland, New Series, Vol. 5, p. 13, no. 91
J.W. Summers, 1858, History of Sunderland, p. 14
W.C. Mitchell, 1919, History of Sunderland, p. 10
J.A. Petch, 1925, Roman Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, I,p. 30
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 64, no. 25
R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectural & Archaeolgical Society of Durham and Northumberland, New Series, Vol. 5, p. 13, no. 91