River Wear, medieval skillet

HER Number

36

District

Sunderland

Site Name

River Wear, medieval skillet

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Findspot

Site Type: Specific

Skillet

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

A Medieval two-handled bronze skillet, circular, 16 inches in diameter and 5 inches deep, was dredged from the River Wear in 1830 and is now in Sunderland Museum.

Easting

439399

Northing

557420

Grid Reference

NZ439399557420

Sources

<< HER 36 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Mid. bronze skillet