Arbeia Roman Fort, jet button

HER Number

939

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Arbeia Roman Fort, jet button

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Button

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Later Prehistoric -4,000 to 43

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

Jet or shale conical V-perforated button, diameter 38 mm; subsequently perforated for use as a spindle whorl. Found in a secondary context sometime between 1875-1878.

Easting

436500

Northing

567900

Grid Reference

NZ436500567900

Sources

<< HER 939 >> R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 80 and 83, fig. 26, no. 2.3