Chirton, inhumation

On October 30, 1830 workmen at Collingwood Main colliery found the remains of a human body, enclosed in flagstones set upon their edges, about four feet below the surface, and covered over by other flagstones. A skull and two or three mutilated bones were found inside it, which, almost immediately, on being exposed to the air crumbled into dust. The location of the find was said to be the south-west angle of a large 'Roman encampment' in the field at East Chirton, called 'Blake Chesters'.