<< Text Pages >> Elswick Road Cist - Cist in England in Tyne and Wear
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Elswick Road CistCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.556 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Tyne and Wear Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Newcastle
Map Ref: NZ225639
Latitude: 54.969218N Longitude: 1.650075W
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 |
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A Bronze age cist and burial found in 1873 in a quarry that is now part of elswick in the west end of Newcastle Upon Tyne. The food vessel found inside the cist has vertical lines of notched-stick impressions on the inner rim bevel and horizontal and diagonal lines on the outer. The body is covered with notched impressions in groups of chevrons, vertical and horizontal lines interspersed with chevron motifs.
Pastscape: 25049
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