Baring Street, sculpture and stone trough
Baring Street, sculpture and stone trough
HER Number
1885
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Baring Street, sculpture and stone trough
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Grave Marker
Site Type: Specific
Gravestone
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Close beside the paved road (HER ref. 1884) was found "a striking sculptured stone, which was conjectured with great probability to have been connected with some funeral monument. Near it also were the remains of a shallow stone trough".
Easting
436500
Northing
567700
Grid Reference
NZ436500567700
Sources
<< HER 1885 >> Tyne and Wear Museums, 2001, Hadrian Primary School, Baring Street, South Shields, Archaeological Assessment, appendix 1
R. E. Hooppell, 1878, Natural History Transactions Northumbria, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, VII, 4, p4-5 and plate V
R. E. Hooppell, 1878, Natural History Transactions Northumbria, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, VII, 4, p4-5 and plate V