At the east end of Ryton church there is a solid stone coffin, with the external dimensions - length 2.1 m, width at head 0.7 m, width at foot 0.5 m, depth 0.4 m. The date 1610 has been inscribed on the head end.

A coin of Tetricus II was found in 1972 in Paddock Hill Woods, above the river Derwent near the north end of the old railway viaduct and donated to the Museum of Antiquities. The find spot is rather obscure.

On 13 November 1939 a cist was uncovered at Summerhill sand quarry, but was not properly recorded or published. Cocks recorded that this cist, which measured 2 feet 11 in x 2 feet 1 in, was found empty. It was placed in hils garden at Lilac Cottage, Barmoor Lane.

The well-constructed cist had internal dimensions 3 feet 6 in x 2 feet, x 1 feet 6 in deep, with particularly large and thick side and cover stones, the latter 5 feet 6 in x 3 feet, x 4 in thick. The joints between the stones were packed with small stones or clay, and the floor of the cist consisted of 3 slabs of sandstone, 1 in thick, carefully fitted together. The cist contained a contracted skeleton and a pottery vessel upon sand and pebbles, plus some fragments of charcoal and burnt bone. The pottery vessel was a beaker measuring 184 mm in height with a rim diameter of 153 mm. The neck is decorated with five notched-wheel horizontal grooves, and the rest of the body, below a zigzag line, with comb-impressed horizontal bands, chevrons, cross-hatching, herringbone and zigzag. It is probably in the Museum of Antiquities.

On 23 November 1938 a cist burial was found on the edge of Summerhill sand quarry at a point south-east of the crossroads of the Blaydon-Greenside road and Path Head Lane, some 5 yards north-west of another cist (HER no. 611) also excavated by T.R. Goddard of the Hancock Museum. This burial differed from the neighbouring ones "in being covered by numbers of rounded water-worn stones from 6 to 12 inches in length packed in the surrounding sand and forming a roughly circular heap some 5 to 6 feet in diameter". This did not project above the ground level in 1938, and does not appear to have risen more than 18 inches above the top of the cist, but it seems possible that there had originally been a cairn over this burial.

On 11 Nov. 1938 a cist burial was found on the edge of the Summerhill sand quarry some 40 yards from the Blaydon-Greenside road, opposite to a point 20 yards east of the lane which crosses that road at Path Head. The cist was excavated by T.R. Goddard of the Hancock Museum. It was constructed of four sandstone slabs which formed a rectangular space 2 feet x 3 feet 4 in, x 2 feet 3in deep, floored by thin irregular sand stone slabs and topped by a broken coverstone. The cist contained a poorly preserved contracted skeleton and a broken Food Vessel, with small fragments of charcoal and burnt bone on the floor. The Food Vessel, 150 mm high, rim diam 166 mm, base diam 88 mm, is in light buff fabric with a dark grey core. It is decorated with a single row of whipped cord impressions on the rim, alternating groups of horizontal and vertical lines of whipped cord on the neck and shoulder, with vertical lines between shoulder and base.

On 5 August 1937 a cist was found in Summerhill sand quarry, Blaydon and excavated by G.W. Temperley, hon. secretary, Natural History Society. It was located "above the west face of the sand quarry, 50 yards south of a point on the Blaydon-Greenside road 800 yards from its junction with the Blaydon-Hexham road, at the west end of the new road bridge". It was found 18 ins below ground, and constructed of four 3 in thick sandstone slabs to form a cavity 3 feet x 2 feet 3 ins x 1 feet 9 ins deep. The coverstone (or stones) was badly broken. In the cist were the remains of an adult skeleton in a contracted position with the head at the northern end. Behind the skull of a skeleton, there was a flint knife of dark blue-grey flint some 50 mm long by 25 mm wide. The flint knife appears to have been transferred to Sunderland Museum.

On 11 May 1930 a cist burial was unearthed at the top of a south facing slope west of the Summerhouse on Summerhouse Hill. The cist and its contents, two (or parts of two) skeletons and a pottery vessel, were recovered by the curator of the Hancock Museum. The cist was apparently constructed of two end and four side stones, with a coverstone. The vessel was a short-necked beaker 260 mm high with rim diam of 140 mm, with decoration including comb- impressed cross-hatched lines. The cist was set up in the Hancock Museum and later moved to a site in the museum garden at the side of Claremont Road. The beaker and an incomplete skeleton were transferred from the Hancock to the Museum of Antiquities in 1973.

A cist burial was found on 15 Nov. 1939 on the site of the petrol station at Bewes Hill near Blaydon and emptied by G.W. Temperley of Hancock Museum. Photographs of the cist show that the underside of its capstone bore an incised U-shaped groove, c. 2" wide and set about 3" from the edge of the stone. The cist probably contained a single skeleton with a pottery vessel and flint flake. The cist was eventually erected in the grounds of the Ryton UDC offices and there is an unconfirmed report that it passed to the Museum of Antiquities on 5 June 1972. The Food Vessel is described as in pink buff fabric, 210 mm high, and with the diam of rim 180 mm, of base 90 mm. it has a bulbous body with a carination and concave neck but no collar. The neck and body are decorated with scored cross-hatching, the rim with whipped cord. Its present location is uncertain: possible locations include the Museum of Antiquities, the Hancock Museum and Sunderland Museum.

A Food Vessel was found in Axwell Park sand quarry near the Blaydon-Swalwell road on 7th September 1934, not in a cist. The pot was subsequently put on display in Blaydon East Secondary Modern School, Shibdon Road, Blaydon. Is was described as a bipartite bowl, 117 mm high and with a rim diameter of 140 mm, in a light brown fabric with black core. The decoration, impressed with a six-toothed comb or serrated piece of wood in encircling lines and chevrons, covers the whole of the outside of the pot. A secondary source claims that it contained cremated bone when found, but corroboration for this is lacking (perhaps in the Hancock Museum Accessions Book). The vessel may now be in Sunderland Museum.