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866


S Tyneside


South Shields, animal bones


South Shields


NZ36NE


Ecofacts


Animal remains


Mammal Remains


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The antlers and bones of the Cervus Megaceros, or extinct Irish elk, occurred in a brickyard of Messrs R.W. Swinburne & Co., at South Shields, near which is the ancient Heortedun. They are now in the Sydenham Palace, and were found in a compressed stratum of dry peat, which lay beneath two feet of ordinary soil and a seam of clay twelve feet thick. Miket assumes these bones are prehistoric.


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669


NZ363669



<< HER 866 >> W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1858, Durham before the Conquest, Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute Newcastle, Vol. I, p. 48 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 81 no. 11

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