Sunderland, Langham Tower, cist burial

HER Number:
396

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Langham Tower, cist burial

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

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:
A cist burial was recorded at Langham Tower, perhaps in the 1920s, but there are no details. Some flint tools supposedly found in the cist are presumed lost.

Easting:
3984

Northing:
5605

Grid Reference:
NZ39845605

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 396 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 64, no. 26 R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series,Vol. 161, p. 219, F 111