Jarrow Priory, medieval cemetery

HER Number:
1228

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow Priory, medieval cemetery

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Cemetery

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation Cemetery

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C11-C16

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Post-Conquest burials apparently lying in rows west of the claustral buildings. The pre-Conquest burials were largely in the cloister.

Easting:
3387

Northing:
6520

Grid Reference:
NZ33876520

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1228 >> Pers comm. Pam Lowther, 1993, Jarrow Priory, medieval cemetery; Turner, A, 2011, Geophysical Surveys at Wearnouth and Jarrow 2008-2011