Chirton, cist with inhumation

"1818. October 30. The workmen of Collingwood Main colliery, in cutting through part of the lands at Chirton, near North Shields, for a water level, came to the remains of a human body, enclosed in flagstones set upon their edges, about four feet below the surface, and covered over by others of a similar description. Only a skull and two or three mutilated bones were found, which, almost immediately, on being exposed to the air crumbled into dust; the bottom of the enclosure contained nothing else, except some white sand. The place where found...is in the south-west angle of a large Roman encampment...in the field of east Chirton, called "Blake Chesters", now called Crawley".