Tunstall, High Elstob Farm, burial cairns

HER Number:
240

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Tunstall, High Elstob Farm, burial cairns

Place:
Tunstall

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary Site

Site Type: Specific:
Cairn

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In recording flints from High Elstob Farm, in the south-east field to the west of Tunstall Hope, mention was made of two patches of stones on the east slope which suggested scattered burial cairns.

Easting:
38

Northing:
54

Grid Reference:
NZ3854

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 240 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in Co. Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25 R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectural & Archaeological Society Durham & Northumberland, New series, Vol. 5, p. 13 nos. 94-5