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Cist found in 1883 (Tillside)

(NU 01832476) Cist found AD 1883. (1)

In removing a stone from the Clover Bank field in June 1883, George Tail, tenant of Hilburn Hill Farm came upon a grave of some kind. The large stone which was carved (illus shows cup and ring marks) was broken up and the grave laid open to a depth of 16ins leaving 2ins of soil above the upper deposit of bones. The line of the bones extended 9ft 2ins and a trench c.20ins wide taken out on each side of the deposit to a depth of 14ins leaving a solid piece of ground 17ins wide to 9ft 2ins long between. In this were seven small, shallow, circular depressions containing bones of cremation burials and each pit had three small whinstones over it. These pits were removed and about 4ins or 5ins below them another row of five circular depressions, containing bones from cremation burials, of a similar nature to a/m were found. No grave goods were found. (2)

Some stones marked with concentric circles, which had been found in Clover Bank field on Lilburn Hill Farm in June 1883, were presented to the Society of Antiquaries Newcastle by Mr J G Moffat on 2nd July 1884. (3)

Two pieces of the carved stone are now in the Black Gate Museum, Newcastle, Accession No 1884-3. (4)

A south-facing hill slope, under corn stubble. No evidence of antiquity. Mr Dixon, of Lilburn Hill Farm has no information to offer about this site. He confirmed the name of the field as Clover Bank. (5)

Eglingham : West Lilburn. A large conical stone with cup and ring markings and one double spiral found in the Clover Bank Field, Lilburn Hill Farm, in association with 12 burials by cremation. Broken at the time of discovery; two pieces are now in the Black Gate Mueum. (6a)

NU 013 256 approx. Lilburn Hill Farm. Conical Stone (NM), cremations C/rs and spirals. (6b)

It is quite likely that the pit, with its multiple burials, was Neolithic rather than early Bronze Age. It is also likely that it would have been capped by a long mound. The spirals and curvilinear designs make the rock unusual in Northumberland burials. (6c)

Drawing of part of the stone found at Lilburn Hill Farm. (6d)
N3477
Neolithic (4000BC to 2200BC)
Bronze Age (2600BC to 700BC)
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1955; A S Phillips


Source of Reference
Local History of Tillside
Local History of Tillside
Local History of Tillside

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