Jarrow, Roman oil lamp

HER Number

983

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Jarrow, Roman oil lamp

Place

Jarrow

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Lamp

General Period

ROMAN

Specific Period

Roman 43 to 410

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

A Roman oil lamp was found "in the ballasting gravel of a railway embankment at East Jarrow, near the Curlew Road", and exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle, in 1929. The railway must have been one of the wagonways or mineral lines in that area.

Easting

433000

Northing

565000

Grid Reference

NZ433000565000

Sources

<< HER 983 >> J.D. Rose, 1931, Roman Lamp from Jarrow,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, IV (for 1929-30), p. 47