Gateshead Fell, skeleton

HER Number:
704

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead Fell, skeleton

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE NZ25NE

Class:

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Coin

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Martin's General Magazine reported the discovery in 1755 of 'three small and very ancient Saxon coins' (stycas?) on Gateshead Moor, near "a skeleton, the bones of which lay compactly together and measured seven feet eight inches high, at seven feet depth from the surface, in a bed of stiff clay". It has been suggested that the location is actually Gateshead Fell, and that the burial is prehistoric, although this interpretation is incorrect if the coins were associated with the burial.

Easting:
287

Northing:
619

Grid Reference:
NZ287619

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 704 >> W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, I, p. 73