A number of cremation burials are recorded from Hasting Hill barrow:
[1] A small, oblong cist, of four limestone slabs without a cover-stone, found full of soil on the south side of the mound. It measured 2 feet 1 inch x 1 feet 1 inch, x 1 feet 1 inch deep, and had a base slab of magnesian limestone set on a bed of gravel a few inches above the base of the mound. It contained calcined bones in a cist, mixed with fragments of a food vessel, a decorated pygmy cup and 3 flints (a flint core, a flake, and an implement with secondary chipping, all more or less calcined).
[2] About 12 feet south-east of the centre and about 9 inches under the surface, not far removed from [1] were the scattered remains of a very large cinerary urn which had been filled with calcined bones. The upper part of the vessel was decorated with lines of twisted cord, the bevel with four concentric lines, the neck with intersecting vertical and horizontal lines, and the rim with sloping lines.
[3] About 12 feet south-west of the centre of the mound a deposit of calcined bones occurred, a few inches beneath the surface.
[4] Slightly west of [3] a complete, decorated food vessel in light brown fabric was found, lying on its side about 1 foot beneath the surface of the mound, its mouth to the west. It contained only earth and stones, but was partly blackened inside as though by burning. It was described as a bipartite vase with shoulder groove, 10.2 cm high, 12.7 cm rim diameter, 7.5 cm base diameter.
[5] A limestone cist was found at the base of the barrow, roughly circular in outline, 1 foot 2 in in diameter, and formed of five rough undressed masses of sandstone and magnesian limestone, sunk some inches into the limestone rock, topped by a coverstone. The cist contained a cremation - "calcined bones of an adult individual” - with a fragment of a food vessel and a sheep's tooth.
[6] A cist made from thin slabs of limestone was found near the south-west edge of the barrow. In it was an inverted cinerary urn (‘Food Vessel’) containing a large quantity of calcined bones in very small fragments. The cist appeared to have been constructed around the vessel, which was in coarse ware with prominent grits especially around the rim, but externally smoothed and decorated, measuring 245 mm high, c.240 mm rim diameter and 115-120 base diameter.
[7] A small nearly square box-shaped cist of thin slabs of magnesian limestone occurred very slightly north of the primary grave and very near the surface of the mound. It measured 1 foot 2 inches by 1 foot and had a depth of 1 foot, and was about 6 feet from the centre of the barrow. It contained calcined bones but no other remains.

A number of inhumation burials are recorded from Hasting Hill barrow: [1] Before his excavation of the barrow in 1911, Trechmann was informed by the tenant, Mr. Thomas Brown of East Herrington, that on 5 October 1827, "a contracted skeleton had been found there having the hair on its head, and that the finders concluded that a murder had been committed.” It is likely that the supposed hair on the head was probably plant roots, and as the contracted position of the skeleton suggests that it was of prehistoric origin.
[2] The primary burial of the barrow was about 5 feet south-west of the centre of the mound, and had an E-W long axis. It consisted of the contracted skeleton of a man, c. 50 years old, 5 feet 4.5 inches tall, in a cist. With the burial was a beaker, a flint knife, a bone pin, the tip of an antler, some fish, bird and animal bones, and shells. The cist was constructed of a hole cut 2 feet deep into the natural limestone, and lined with slabs of sandstone and magnesian limestone, to provide a grave 3 feet x 1 foot 10 inches, x 1 foot 9 inches deep. The principal coverstone was a triangular slab of sandstone, 3 feet long, 8 inches thick, and roughly dressed at the edges. The pottery beaker was 144 mm high, rim diam 140 mm, decorated with oblique incisions, and with a line of incised upright chevrons around the base. The flint knife was 2 inches in length, made from a flake of grey translucent flint. The bone pin was 2.5 inches long, made from a mammalian bone ground to a point and slightly curved, but without a head.
[3] A large oblong cist internally measuring about 2 feet 9 inches in length and 1 foot 9 inches in breadth was found near the eastern edge of the mound, formed chiefly of slabs of magnesian limestone. Cover-stones had been present, but had been largely removed or destroyed. It contained a crouched inhumation of a man c. 5 feet tall "of considerably advanced age", a decorated Food Vessel in dark red-brown fabric, 15.3 cm high with 12.7 cm rim diameter, and two flints, one behind the skull of the skeleton, the other near its feet.
[4] A skeleton, in a shallow oval grave cut out of the natural limestone, was found at the base of the barrow about 6 feet north of the centre of the mound. The contracted skeleton was that of a woman aged c. 60, and 4 feet 8 inches - 5 feet tall. The grave was 4 feet x 3 feet and only a few inches deep. The body had been surrounded by small limestone boulders, and covered with slabs of limestone and sandstone, a quasi cist. No object was found accompanying this burial.
[5] A cist measuring 2 feet 2 in x 1 feet 2 inches x 1 foot 1 inch deep was found on the north-east edge of the mound sunk a few inches into the natural limestone. It had been constructed of magnesian limestone and its coverstones were in place. In the cist there was the skeleton of a child, and behind its head a decorated food vessel in light brown fabric, 10 cm high, with 10.8 cm rim diameter and 6.4 cm base diameter. Also present were a flint splinter and an ox tooth.

It is generally agreed that the name Pons Aelius applies to the fort of Newcastle, and indicates the existence of a bridge across the Tyne. The location of the Roman bridge remains uncertain, although it is widely believed to be on or in the vicinity of the site of the modern Swing Bridge.

In 1979 an urned cremation was discovered in the side of a quarry at Warden Law. It had originally been buried in a short cist covered by a mound, or barrow which was probably elliptical in plan, with a longitudinal axis approximately north-south and measuring a minimum of 11 metres long and 1.10 metres high. The cist was formed by six split-sandstone slabs, placed at right angles to each other, making a small, stone box, 300 mm square. The base of the box rested directly on the glacial till. It was completely sealed by a mound of earth to a height of 600 mm, indicating that the cist was not introduced into a pre-existing mound. It is possible that other burials may have been present before quarrying damaged the burial mound. The urn is of an unusual form in a red-brown gritted fabric, fractured but complete, and is 215 mm high, with a rim diameter of 231 mm. The internal rim bevel is decorated with oblique incisions, and the external also with short oblique slashes, below which longer incisions descend almost to the base.

The earliest certain reference seems to be 1322 when the then Baron Hylton granted to his chaplain "the Passage of Bovisferry". The ferry ceased to be the responsibility of the Hylton family in c.1750, and passed to the occupant of Wood House Farm. The ferry finally closed in 1957, but ferry landings can still be seen on both sides of the river.

In 1911 Trechmann found two disturbed inhumations which he interpreted as having originally been deposited in the cist (a possible cist lid being found in the mound). One body was aged between 18 and 25, the other was not more than 6 years old. Two flint cores were found next to the bones. In addition, a small hoard of flint implements was found about 3 feet from the edge of the mound, including two leaf-shaped arrowheads, a chipped lance head, knife or 'laurel leaf' spearhead, and three flakes. Other finds included two flint cores in proximity to the bones, quantities of flint flakes and cores scattered through the mound, a fragment of undecorated pottery near the centre of the mound, and several flakes, cores and chippings of flint, together with the cutting edge of a polished greenstone axe on the original ground surface below the barrow.

In addition to those found with burials, a number of stone implements have been found on or near the burial mound at Copt Hill. These include a flint knife, two surviving flint scrapers, and 10 pieces of flint and stone presently in the British Museum (8 unbroken flakes and 1 irregular lump of flint).

The burial mound at Copt Hill contained, in addition to prehistoric burials, an unburnt body on the summit of the mound laid east-west on its back at full length with the head to the west. It occurred in a cist constructed of stones set on edge, measuring 6 feet in length and 2 feet 3 inches in width, 4.5 feet above the ground level and 3 feet below the surface of the barrow. No implements were found with this interment which was judged to be of Anglo-Saxon and possibly Christian origin.

The burial mound at Copt Hill contained at least 5 inhumation burials in 4 locations. One was the body of a child contained in a small cist made of four stones set on edge with a single flag-stone for a cover and another for the bottom. Another was an unburnt body found with another disturbed one, the latter associated with a flint scraper. Others were the body of a man, possibly crouched, laid apparently on the left side, with the head to the west south-west; and an unburnt body found with a food vessel - the latter no longer in existence.

The burial mound at Copt Hill contained at least 4 cremation burials of probable bronze age date. One was a deposit of burnt bones scattered over a space of about 2.5 feet in diameter, with a piece of calcined flint (probably lost). Another was in a cinerary urn probably placed in an inverted position and filled with burnt bones, with some stones set round it. The 'food vessel' cinerary urn was decorated with the impressions of the end of a snapped flint blade, on the internal rim bevel and neck with herringbone, and on the external rim bevel and shoulder groove with single rows of diagonal impressions. Two other burnt bodies have been recorded elsewhere in the mound.