"Here is a quarry of excellent stone, in which the workmen, in 1790, discovered a stone coffin. It was about five feet from the surface, was walled around, and covered by a large flat stone. The skeleton within it appeared very perfect, but mouldered to dust on being exposed to the air".(1) Richardson added that the discovery was made in May, and that the cover stone had no inscription on it.

Two flint axes, one 7.25 in x 3.5 in at the broadest part and of a deep ochreous colour, the other 5.25 in x 2.25 in and white, were found in 1860 in alluvial soil at the estuary of the Don near Jarrow during the construction of Tyne Dock. It was suggested that they had come in ballast. Source 1 reported that the larger was partially polished, source 4 that both axes had "surfaces entirely ground". Formerly in the possession of the late Mr. John Thompson of Simonside (3), they are now lost.

Roman coin, probably Valens. Obv. Bust to right, draped and wearing pearl diadem (...)F AVG Rev. Emperor advancing right, dragging captive with right hand, holding a labarum in left hand. (GLORIA ROMANORVM) Mint CUN(...) 25 Feb. 364 - 17 Nov. 375. Found in the gas main trench at junction of Beach Road and Woodbine Road (sic Woodbine Street) by Joseph Barr, 22 Dickens Avenue, Biddick Hall Estate, South Shields NE34 9SY. Registered at South Shields Roman Fort Museum on 8 April 1991 by P.T. Bidwell and retained by the finder. Dated C4.

Black cherty shale barbed and tanged arrowhead, found on waste ground off Regent Street/Market Street/Edward Street, by S.D. Wallace, of 19 Regent Street, Hetton-le-Hole, DH5 9AB. Lent to Sunderland Museum for 4 years, Nov. 1991.

Between West and Middle Herrington, on both sides of the Herrington Burn, which here flows from W to E, and also in the Park S of Middle Herrington, there is fine ridge and furrow, without extant field boundaries. The Tithe Awards for both settlements of 1847 suggest that the township boundary ran N-S across the first of these areas, leaving a single field (W Herrington no. 60, Battle Field) to the W. On the E side of the line there were apparently 5 fields divided between 3 farms, nos. 62 The Meadows, 63 Blakeless and 75 in the Middle Herrington west farm, no. 64 West Blakeless in John Gibson's Farm, and no. 74 with the land attached to Middle Herrington Hall. All at that time were down to grass. In the second area, no. 80 The Park was grass, no. 98 Far Park was arable.

An apparently single-ditched sub-oval enclosure.

An aerial photo exists showing a rather woolly cropmark of perhaps an enclosure south of the two tree-covered mounds of Warden Law. Without better definition it is impossible to be certain whether or not this is actually a site.

In 1990 TWCMS excavated 17 trial trenches on the open ground on Carley Hill between a disused quarry (N) and a housing estate (S). This work revealed part of "an irregular oval-shaped enclosure" with a perimeter ditch 5-7 m wide, and 1 m deep except on the W side where it petered out. A posthole here was perhaps part of a W gate. The bottom of the ditch was filled with dolerite nodules and charcoal, the upper part with silt. The charcoal had a radio carbon date of 3,790 +/- 80 (1,840 +/- 80 b.c.). Pollen analysis suggests that "when the enclosure was built much of the surrounding area was covered with alder forest, and this was later cleared for cereal cultivation". Above the enclosure were traces of 18th century-19 ridge and furrow. Complete the description when an up-to-date report arrives.

On the level of the limestone, and about 16 inches from the feet of skeleton (SMR 479) but apparently not associated with that or any other burial, Trechmann found the rim of a food vessel. "Finely decorated with incised herringbone interrupted by single encircling twisted cord lines. Red-brown fabric".

Find VII: "A pick formed of a stag's antler, 16 inches in length. It was found among limestone rubble a few feet NW of the primary grave and a few inches above the limestone rock. This is the type of implement apparently in general use in constructing barrows. The brow tine nearest the skull of the animal has been used as the point of the pick and has the end broken off or worn away. The fragment of stag's antler found in the primary grave may very possibly be the end of this pick broken off and left in the grave by accident. The pick has a part of the skull attached, showing it to be the antler of a killed stag and not merely a shed antler".