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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Fatfield BarrowCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.399 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Tyne and Wear Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Washington Nearest Village: Fatfield
Map Ref: NZ30735374
Latitude: 54.877483N Longitude: 1.522606W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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All three cists contained inhumation burials (skeletons), and one a food vessel. The sides of the first two cists, excavated in October 1907, were each formed of one large stone, and both cists were covered by one very large slab which lay 30cm below the surface. Both were filled with fine sand. The third cist, opened in November 1907, was 25cm below the surface, and measured 105cm x 75cm x 10cm thick. It covered a cist with the internal dimensions of 105cm x 70cm x 60cm deep. Each side was composed of a long and a short slab, with a narrow one at each end, and no base. The food vessel, now lost, was 19cm high, 12cm in diameter with the walls 12mm thick. The ornamentation comprised thin parallel lines around the vessel, with indented thumb marks between them.
At the time the cists were found, this area was mostly housing. It is now an area of parkland.
There is a rather dark photo of one of the cists with a skeleton, in Roger Miket's book "The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear". He gives a slightly different grid reference at NZ30755372, which has been planted with trees. Both this and the HER grid reference being, I think, guesswork. When I visited the site, a park-keeper cutting the grass indicated a low mound at NZ30895372 as the barrow, though this must be hearsay. An excavation in 1977 at the HER grid reference failed to locate the site.
My text is based on the Tyne and Wear HER; Tyne and Wear HER 318
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