Bronze Age burials from Low Farm (Haydon)
Two Bronze Age burials were found on 14.2.1921 when a railway siding was being constructed on the north side of the Newcastle-Carlisle railway. The site is two miles west of Haydon Bridge on Low Farm, Ridley Hall estate.
One side of a cutting had collapsed and two cinerary urns (one of over-hanging rim type), and an 'incense' cup were seen in the debris. They had evidently been buried at about two feet, but no surface indications had been noted. Six feet to the west workmen found a skeleton with a bronze knife.
The finds were identified by W Parker-Brewis, and the incense cup and knife are in the Blackgate Museum, Newcastle. A second 'incense cup' presumably from the same burials, was presented to the museum in 1923 (2). (1)(2)
A disused railway siding, centred at NY 80956417, is probably the one in question. The finds (as above) are on show in the Museum. (3)
The incense cup from Low Morralee Farm, Haydon Bridge (same as above?) is a derivative of the 'Aldbourne' series of incense cups characteristic of the Wessex culture of the Early Bronze Age. Vessel obtained by P Brewis in 1922 from workmen probably making a railway siding at Low Morralee Farm. May be contemporary with other finds made there. (4)
Moralee Farm. Fragments of small collared urn, undecorated. In Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle (1921.3). Also from Moralee Farm a cordoned urn, which contained a bronze knife, incense cup and smaller urn. Cordoned urn c440mm high, 360mm rim diameter, 125mm base diameter. Decorated. In Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle (1956.225a). (5)
One side of a cutting had collapsed and two cinerary urns (one of over-hanging rim type), and an 'incense' cup were seen in the debris. They had evidently been buried at about two feet, but no surface indications had been noted. Six feet to the west workmen found a skeleton with a bronze knife.
The finds were identified by W Parker-Brewis, and the incense cup and knife are in the Blackgate Museum, Newcastle. A second 'incense cup' presumably from the same burials, was presented to the museum in 1923 (2). (1)(2)
A disused railway siding, centred at NY 80956417, is probably the one in question. The finds (as above) are on show in the Museum. (3)
The incense cup from Low Morralee Farm, Haydon Bridge (same as above?) is a derivative of the 'Aldbourne' series of incense cups characteristic of the Wessex culture of the Early Bronze Age. Vessel obtained by P Brewis in 1922 from workmen probably making a railway siding at Low Morralee Farm. May be contemporary with other finds made there. (4)
Moralee Farm. Fragments of small collared urn, undecorated. In Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle (1921.3). Also from Moralee Farm a cordoned urn, which contained a bronze knife, incense cup and smaller urn. Cordoned urn c440mm high, 360mm rim diameter, 125mm base diameter. Decorated. In Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle (1956.225a). (5)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1956; D A Davies
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