Newcastle, Clavering Place, human bones

HER Number:
1444

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Clavering Place, human bones

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary Site

Site Type: Specific:
Human Remains

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
It was reported in 1865 that, during recent alterations to his property in Clavering Place, Edward Spoor had found a mixture of pottery, human bones and a Roman building-stone in north-south parallel trenches "within the precincts of the house of the White Friars". Without knowing the location of Spoor's house it is impossible to suggest whether these bodies were found in the Carmelites' cemetery, and so were not Roman, on the west side of Clavering Place, or conceivably from the supposed Roman cemetery on the east side.

Easting:
249

Northing:
638

Grid Reference:
NZ249638

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1444 >> Archaeologia Aeliana, 1865, Roman Stone found at the White Friars', Newcastle, 2, VI, 231 J.C. Bruce, 1867, Roman Wall, 3rd ed., 103n G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Newcastle Fort Suburbs, Northumberland County History, XIII, 506