Fulwell, inhumation and urns ?in cist
Fulwell, inhumation and urns ?in cist
HER Number
              371
          District
              Sunderland
          Site Name
              Fulwell, inhumation and urns ?in cist
          Place
              Fulwell
          Map Sheet
              NZ35NE
          Class
              Religious Ritual and Funerary
          Site Type: Broad
              Burial
          Site Type: Specific
              Inhumation
          General Period
              PREHISTORIC
          Specific Period
              Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
          Form of Evidence
              Find
          Description
              In 1900 or 1901 a Bronze Age burial was found at Fulwell. Inside was a skeleton "about four feet below the surface in a sand bed; it was covered with (limpet) shells (of which there were several hundreds)…and a large stone on the top". Also in the grave were fragments of cinerary urns. The urns, of which there is a photo, were broken by the workmen, as were the large stones which formed the cist, being used for the foundations of the new street footpaths. The bones were covered up. The precise location of this site is unknown.
          Easting
              439000
          Northing
              559000
          Grid Reference
              NZ439000559000
    Sources
              << HER 371 >>    J.H. Robinson, 1907, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3, II (for 1905-06), pp. 78, 198
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Possible Bronze Age burial - inhumation.
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 3.1
          Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Possible Bronze Age burial - inhumation.
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 3.1