Langham Tower, cist burial
Langham Tower, cist burial
HER Number
396
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Langham Tower, cist burial
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
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
A cist burial was recorded at Langham Tower, perhaps in the 1920s, but there are no details. Some flint tools supposedly found in the cist are presumed lost.
Easting
439840
Northing
556050
Grid Reference
NZ439840556050
Sources
<< HER 396 >> G.B. Gibbs, 1939, Neolithic Man in County Durham, Antiquities of Sunderland, Vol. 19 (for 1929-32), p. 25
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 64, no. 26
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series,Vol. 161, p. 219, F 111
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 64, no. 26
R. Young, 1987, Lithics and Subsistence in North-Eastern England, British Archaeological Report, British Series,Vol. 161, p. 219, F 111