Hasting Hill barrow, Food Vessel
Hasting Hill barrow, Food Vessel
HER Number
480
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Hasting Hill barrow, Food Vessel
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Barrow
Site Type: Specific
Sherd
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
On the level of the limestone, and about 16 inches from the feet of a skeleton (HER ref. 479) but apparently not associated with that or any other burial, Trechmann found the rim of a decorated food vessel in red-brown fabric.
Easting
435260
Northing
554450
Grid Reference
NZ435260554450
Sources
<< HER 480 >> C.T. Trechmann, 1914, Prehistoric Burials in the County of Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XI, p. 153
A.M. Gibson, 1978, Bronze Age Pottery in the North-East of England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, 56, pp. 66 and 121, no. 82
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 69 and 76 Fig. 23 no. 1.1l
A.M. Gibson, 1978, Bronze Age Pottery in the North-East of England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, 56, pp. 66 and 121, no. 82
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 69 and 76 Fig. 23 no. 1.1l