Billy Mill, inhumation

HER Number:
491

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Billy Mill, inhumation

Place:
Billy Mill

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A stone coffin was discovered in 1790 about five feet from the surface, covered by a large flat stone with no inscription on it. The complete skeleton within the coffin, or cist, mouldered to dust on being exposed to the air.

Easting:
336

Northing:
692

Grid Reference:
NZ336692

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 491 >> E. Mackenzie, 1825, View of Northumberland, Vol. 2, p. 460 M.A. Richardson, 1842, The Local Historian's Table Book: Historical Division Vol. II, p. 333 H.H.E. Craster, ed. 1907, Chirton Township, Northumberland County History, Vol. VIII, p. 316