Wheatall Farm, cist
Wheatall Farm, cist
HER Number
847
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Wheatall Farm, cist
Place
Whitburn
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Cist
Site Type: Specific
Cist
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
In 1929, during road widening near Wheatall Farm, a cist burial was found 60-90 cms deep in glacial gravel. The cist contained "a contracted inhumation aged c. 35 years, a barbed and tanged arrowhead, 5 other worked flints described as "knives and flakes", and limpets. The cist was subsequently reconstructed in South Shields Museum, and consists of 2 side stones and 2 end stones on a base stone. In spite of the arrowhead, presumably Bronze Age, both Gibbs and the Ordnance Survey suggest this was a late Neolithic burial. The present location of the lithic material is obscure.
Easting
440726
Northing
562646
Grid Reference
NZ440726562646
Sources
<< HER 847 >> South Shields Gazette, 1929, 24-Jan-29;
G B Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), pp. 22-3;
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Possible late Neolithic cist burial…;
R Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 94 no. 1;
R Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 229 F 118;
Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, 1959, sheet NZ4062 - A
G B Gibbs, 1932, Neolithic man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), pp. 22-3;
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, JHO, 1952, Possible late Neolithic cist burial…;
R Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 94 no. 1;
R Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series, p. 229 F 118;
Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, 1959, sheet NZ4062 - A