[NU 2767 0430] Cists and urns found AD 1883. (1)

[NU 2766 0422] Cists and urns found AD 1889. (2)

During quarrying operations in 1883 and 1893 at Amble no less than 40 graves have been unearthed and probably many more remain unopened. The quarry is situated 1/2 mile south of the 1857 find. It consisted of a cairn of cobble stones c.40ft in diameter and 5ft high, about 70yds from the sea-beach and covered by blown sand for a depth of 4ft. It had contained about 20 cists of the usual form and several deposits of burnt bones also seven pottery vessels. The central and primary interment had been contained in a cist lying south west-north east 3ft 7ins long, 1ft 11ins wide and 1ft 10ins deep formed of four slabs and coverstone. The interment was of an unburnt body and the cist contained a small bronze knife (now in the British Museum) and a food vessel, which had three perforated ears and was 3 7/8ins high and 1ft 4ins in circumference at widest part - decoration was a herringbone pattern. The knife 1-3/8ins long and 1-1/8ins wide had three rivets still remaining. A flint flake was also found.
Two vessels measuring 5-3/8ins and 5-1/2ins in height respectively are in the British Museum; two food vessels measuring 1ft 3-7/8ins and 4-3/4ins in height respectively are in the possession of Mr G H Thompson of Alnwick. All the a/m found in 1893.
In 1893 at a spot 60 yards distant from the a/m, was found a cist 4-1/2ft long and 2-1/2ft broad containing bones and an urn 7-1/4ins in height and 5-1/4ins wide at mouth. Another urn (destroyed in removal from grave), a portion of a brachycephalic skull and a flint flake, possibly a knife, were also found. (3)

Four Bronze Age urns [Beaker and three Food Vessels] found 1893-4 and a flint spearhead found c.1894 donated to Museum of Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle on 31-1-1923 by Mr Edward Hunter of Gosforth, Newcastle. (4)

A Bronze Age beaker and a food vessel [described in (3a) as two vessels] were presented to the British Museum in 1894 by Messrs Green and Douglas, quarry owners. A Bronze Age food vessel, 6ins high, from Amble was loaned to Society of Antiquaries Museum, Newcastle by Mr A Noble, Tyneside Villas, Hexham. (5)

The site of these cists occurs in a shallow disused quarry now overgrown and containing the remains of an army camp. No traces are to be seen of any cists, nor were there any surface finds. Sited to centre of find area [NU 2767 0426]. The following objects from this site are now in the Black Gate Museum, Newcastle:-
One beaker (type A) and three food vessels , donated by Mr E Hunter in 1923. Acc nos 1923.2/1,2/2,2/3 and 2/4. (These finds refer to those in T3 (4)).
Bronze Age knife of beaker type in Case 3 No 14. (A flint knife 3-3/4ins long x 1-5/8ins broad) donated by Mr E Hunter in 1923 (Refers to T3 (3b) and T3 (4)).
Food vessel, lent by Mr A Noble. Acc no 1930.29 (Refers to food vessel 6ins high in T3 (5)). (6)

[Subsequently published] Bronze Age Burial Ground. (7)

Pottery from Amble Quarry, in Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle: i) food vessel; bipartite vase, 99mm high, 102mm rim diameter, 67mm base diameter (1923.2.3); ii) food vessel; bipartite vase, 97mm high, 125mm rim diameter, 75mm base diameter (1923.2.4); iii) food vessel; bipartite vase, 153mm high, 166mm rim diameter, 80mm base diameter (1930.29); iv) food vessel; bipartite vase associated with bronze object, 96mm high, 118mm rim diameter, 74mm base diameter (1923.2.2).
Four other vessels presumed from same place, in British Museum: v) food vessel; bipartite, 125mm high, 110mm rim diameter, 75mm base diameter (BM 84.12-23.1); vi) beaker-shaped vessel with food vessel decoration (BM 84.12-23.2); vii) food vessel urn, unknown type, 204mm high, 140mm rim diameter, zig-zag decoration, lost; viii) bipartite vessel, 261mm rim diameter, lost. (8)

Quarrying south of Amble revealed a number of cists at various times. About 12 cists, many with cremations, covered by a large cairn c.60ft x 30ft x 3ft high. About 20 cists on the site as a whole. One beaker and several food vessels accompanied inhumations. Location of finds unknown, lost? (9)

Bronze Age bronze dagger from the site recorded in a national review of Early Bronze Age daggers. 1.4 inches by 1.1 inches and three rivets. The size of the dagger is noted as much reduced by whetting. This was found in a cairn with inhumation burial in a cist and associated with a food vessel. (10)

A possible Early Bronze Age flint dagger is reported from the site; this listed as held by the Newcastle Museum in the 1930s. This is the flint knife referred to above, but the identification noted as more than doubtful by Grimes as to whether this should be included in the classification of daggers. (11)

A flint object previously identified by Grimes as a flint dagger is no longer thought to be so by Frieman. (12)

General association with HER 31228. (13)