Marsden, inhumation

HER Number

935

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Marsden, inhumation

Place

Marsden

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Burial

Site Type: Specific

Inhumation

General Period

UNCERTAIN

Specific Period

Uncertain

Form of Evidence

Find

Description

When Rev. Thomas Stephens (Monkwearmouth) recorded the discovery of Roman pottery near a quarry east of the cutting for the new road from Harton or Marsden, "or rather the recent extension towards the latter place", he added that he had been informed that, "whilst the cutting was being made, a human skeleton of extraordinary size was found".

Easting

439000

Northing

565300

Grid Reference

NZ439000565300

Sources

<< HER 935 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1885, Find of Roman Pottery near Marsden, 2, I (for 1882-84), pp. 93-4