Jesmond, two cists from Crag Hall

HER Number:
147

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Jesmond, two cists from Crag Hall

Place:
Jesmond

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary Site

Site Type: Specific:
Cist

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1844, while levelling the ground in the garden of Crag Hall, Mr. C.M. Adamson's gardener found two cists, beneath stone lids, set 8 foot 3 inches apart. In the cists were four food vessels "containing bones and fine earth". One cist measured 2 feet 4 inches by 1 foot 8 inches; the other 2 feet by 1 foot 7 inches.

Easting:
2537

Northing:
6751

Grid Reference:
NZ25376751

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 147 >> J. Bell, Black Gate Society of Antiquaries -album F.W. Dendy, 1904, An Account of Jesmond, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, I, pp. 15-16 M.H. Dodds,1930, Northumberland County History, XIII, pp. 11-12 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 36, no. 1