Castle Garth, gravestone

HER Number

6674

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

Grave Marker

General Period

EARLY MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Early Medieval 410 to 1066

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Saxon grave marker 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, 1981.22.2; Cramp and Miket (1982) nos 57, 58 and S.M. Youngs and J. Clark (eds), 1982, Medieval Britain in 1981, in Medieval Archaeol. XXVI, pp 210-11.