North East History Search Map

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North East England History Search Map​

Click or tap to explore the history of any locality in North East England. Many more places are included in our history pages, that may not appear on this map. To find out about your place of interest choose the nearest locality on the map or search using the menus on the site.

There is a total wealth of information on this website.
So click through the link and there is a map pictured below - the map through the link allows you to search for info about places around the north east.

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North East History

North East England History search map. Northumberland, Durham, Newcastle, Sunderland, Tyne, Wear, Tees, North Yorks. Select place or locality on map.
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Why isn’t Norton on there or even mentioned in the Stockton article despite it being one of the oldest parts of Teesside.

How many parts of Teesside still has a plague pit ??

Or a Battle field site from the 5th century AD

“The discovery led to a series of archaeological digs at the site which identified the burial as being over 1000 years old, with the grave goods dating from the 5th and 6th century AD”
 
I like history - especially round the Anglo Saxon times, find it fascinating. The river Tees was a boundary between Vikings (to the south) and English (to the north).
Interestingly, you don’t get many ‘becks’ running into rivers north of the tees (tend to be ‘burns’ ) that’s an old Norse word
 
Jedi boro said:
Why isn’t Norton on there or even mentioned in the Stockton article despite it being one of the oldest parts of Teesside.

How many parts of Teesside still has a plague pit ??

Or a Battle field site from the 5th century AD

“The discovery led to a series of archaeological digs at the site which identified the burial as being over 1000 years old, with the grave goods dating from the 5th and 6th century AD”
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IA burial site rather than battle with women and men buried in the different Anglo Saxon cemeteries.
5th/6th century is when Northumbria is converting from heathen to christian. Fortunately Norton skeletons were heathen hence the amazing grave goods. Swords, spears, jewellery etc.
 
Jedi boro said:
Why isn’t Norton on there or even mentioned in the Stockton article despite it being one of the oldest parts of Teesside.

How many parts of Teesside still has a plague pit ??

Or a Battle field site from the 5th century AD

“The discovery led to a series of archaeological digs at the site which identified the burial as being over 1000 years old, with the grave goods dating from the 5th and 6th century AD”
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https://englandsnortheast.co.uk/norton-on-tees/ - this might be about Norton…
 
fmttmadmin said:
IA burial site rather than battle with women and men buried in the different Anglo Saxon cemeteries.
5th/6th century is when Northumbria is converting from heathen to christian. Fortunately Norton skeletons were heathen hence the amazing grave goods. Swords, spears, jewellery etc.
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It truly was an amazing time I remember the “dig” as we called it was set up when the excavation took place and the huge scale of the site.

Rob in regards to this -

“Norton revealed a large Anglo-Saxon pagan cemetery that predated the Christian era and the church. The site was revealed by chance by children playing in the area. Following excavation more than one hundred burials were discovered at the site along with three cremations. The finds were dated from between 540AD and 610AD which is relatively early in the Anglo-Saxon period”

I’m not sure if you know the true story behind this, as the site was known to us kids as tarzies trail as it had a tardy there hung high up in the tree and we would swing on it and it had a mud bank.

One of the kids there was swinging on it when they dislodged something that rolled down the bank it was a human skull 💀.

The police came thinking it could be a murder scene and then that when they discovered the hundreds of Anglo Saxon graves and the site of the battle.

We’d been going and playing there floor years and never knew what was beneath our feet. An amazing find and many of the finds are in the library in the high st.

It just goes to show what could be out there.
 
Jedi boro said:
Here’s is more on it

A Pagan Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Norton-on-Tees

www.teesarchaeology.com

It really was like something from the goonies for us kids finding real “treasure” like that.

Btw no I wasn’t one of the kids but I remember when it happened.
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Great that you used to play there. I did know the story because I used to work for Cleveland Archaeology and am still good mates and occasionally still work for the guy that was one of the bosses at Norton.
I didnt work there myself but did dig in Norton church yard about 15 yrs ago.
 
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fmttmadmin said:
Click or tap to explore the history of any locality in North East England. Many more places are included in our history pages, that may not appear on this map. To find out about your place of interest choose the nearest locality on the map or search using the menus on the site.

There is a total wealth of information on this website.
So click through the link and there is a map pictured below - the map through the link allows you to search for info about places around the north east.
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Wife loves this - cheers!
 
Thanks for posting the link. It is fascinating to read about the history for us who dont live close by. I lived in North Yoorkshire for a short time, before the family moved away. But I have roots just North of Leeds dating back to the 1700's
 
Oh dear. Full of Covid, I appear to have fallen down a fact-filled rabbit hole. It's very dark in here but I can't stop reading.....can anyone hear me.....
 
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