Inhumations at Carley Hill
Inhumations at Carley Hill
HER Number
358
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Inhumations at Carley Hill
Place
Fulwell
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Burial
Site Type: Specific
Inhumation
General Period
UNCERTAIN
Specific Period
Uncertain
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
It is worthy of remark that several excavations have been discovered in the solid limestone rock, at Carley Hill, (similar to stone coffins) containing human Bodies. Thus said Dr. Clanney when he reported the discovery in November 1820 of a Roman figure and human bones at Carley Hill.
Easting
438100
Northing
559300
Grid Reference
NZ438100559300
Sources
<< HER 358 >> Dr. Clanney, 1822, Donations, Archaeologia Aeliana, 1, I, p. 13
M.A. Richardson, 1843, The Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Vol. III, p. 215
W.Fordyce, 1857, History of...Durham, Vol. II, p. 539
J.W. Summers, 1858, History of...Sunderland, pp.. 16-17
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 2.2
M.A. Richardson, 1843, The Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Vol. III, p. 215
W.Fordyce, 1857, History of...Durham, Vol. II, p. 539
J.W. Summers, 1858, History of...Sunderland, pp.. 16-17
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 59, no. 2.2