Axwell Park, inhumation

HER Number:
505

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Axwell Park, inhumation

Place:
Axwell Park

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Burial

Site Type: Specific:
Inhumation

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
On March 11th 1763 workmen discovered an urn with a little dust in it inside a large stone coffin, in which was a skull with the teeth very fresh, and several large bones. It is not known in what part of the grounds the coffin was found, and it is uncertain what became of it. It is assumed that this was probably a prehistoric burial, probably dating to the bronze age (note HER no. 504, a possible barrow in the Park).

Easting:
19

Northing:
62

Grid Reference:
NZ1962

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 505 >> Newcastle Courant, 1763, 19.iii.1763 J. Sykes, 1833, Local Records, Vol. I, p. 240 W. Bourn, 1896, History of the Parish of Ryton, p. 174 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 26 no. 17