Sunderland, Hasting Hill, Neolithic pottery

HER Number:
112

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Hasting Hill, Neolithic pottery

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Container

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Vessel

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Neolithic

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1911 Trechmann excavated the Hasting Hill barrow and found, among other things, fragments of two Neolithic pots. The first comprised three sherds of a small, shallow semi-globular bowl, in dark orange fabric with vertical incised lines around the exterior and shallow indentations on the rim. The second, interpreted as 'Peterborough Ware', was a rim sherd in a hard, gritty red fabric, decorated with deeply scored lines on the rim and neck, and with fingernail impressions on the exterior of the rim. The reason for the deposition of this pottery is uncertain, but may have originally accompanied a burial scattered by the insertion of the numerous Bronze Age burials. Alternatively, with the flints and animal bones also in the mound, it could have been derived from an earlier occupation preserved by the construction of the barrow.

Easting:
3526

Northing:
5445

Grid Reference:
NZ35265445

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 112 >> C.T. Trechmann, 1914, Prehistoric Burials in the County of Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XI, pp. 135-156 T.G. Manby, 1973, Neolithic Pottery from Hasting Hill, Co. Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 5, I, pp. 219-222