Sunderland, Building Hill, inhumations

HER Number:
395

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Building Hill, inhumations

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
In 1842 two human skeletons were discovered on Building Hill. The first, supposedly an adult female, was found "about three feet below the surface, near the footpath of Building Hill quarry.... The second "was disentombed by Mr. William Jefferson" while quarrying stone. The discoveries are not described well enough to provide evidence for their date. Other references to "doubtful implements from Building Hilll", and a much later reference to a barrow there do not justify a prehistoric date.

Easting:
398

Northing:
564

Grid Reference:
NZ398564

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 395 >> M.A. Richardson, 1846, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Vol. V, pp. 355, 407 J.W. Summers, 1858, History of Sunderland, p. 14 W.C. Mitchell, 1919, History of Sunderland, p. 10 J.A. Petch, 1925, Roman Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, I,p. 30 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 64, no. 25 R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectural & Archaeolgical Society of Durham and Northumberland, New Series, Vol. 5, p. 13, no. 91