Castle Garth, gravestone

HER Number

6673

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Castle Garth, gravestone

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific

Gravestone

General Period

EARLY MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Early Medieval 410 to 1066

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Grave marker reused as a Saxon grave cover. Originally a Roman milling stone. Found in 1981 during excavations at the Keep by Barbara Harbottle and M. Chard.

Easting

425000

Northing

563800

Grid Reference

NZ425000563800

Sources

Museum of Antiquities, 1981.22.1; Cramp and Miket (1982) nos 57, 58 and S.M. Youngs and J. Clark (eds), 1982, Medieval Britain in 1981, in Medieval Archaeol. XXVI, p 211.